A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes Upon Each Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment, Volume 2S. Brooke, 1826 - Criminal law |
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Page vi
... Book shall be called " The Jurors Book for the Year ( inserting the Calendar Year for which such Book is to be in use ) ; and that every Sheriff on " Jurors Book . " quitting his Office shall deliver the same to the succeeding Sheriff ...
... Book shall be called " The Jurors Book for the Year ( inserting the Calendar Year for which such Book is to be in use ) ; and that every Sheriff on " Jurors Book . " quitting his Office shall deliver the same to the succeeding Sheriff ...
Page vii
... Book for the current Year , and shall in like Manner return the Names of Men contained therein , and no others : Provided always , that if there shall be no Jurors Book in existence for the current Year , it shall be lawful to return ...
... Book for the current Year , and shall in like Manner return the Names of Men contained therein , and no others : Provided always , that if there shall be no Jurors Book in existence for the current Year , it shall be lawful to return ...
Page viii
... Book , to serve on Juries in the said Courts , so as such Number be not less than Forty - eight nor more than Seventy - two , without the Direction of the Judge or Judges of the Courts for such Counties Palatine respec- tively ; and the ...
... Book , to serve on Juries in the said Courts , so as such Number be not less than Forty - eight nor more than Seventy - two , without the Direction of the Judge or Judges of the Courts for such Counties Palatine respec- tively ; and the ...
Page xiv
... Book for the current Year to either of them , take from such Book the Names of all Men who shall be described therein as Esquires or Persons of higher Degree , or as Bankers or Merchants , and shall respectively cause the Names of all ...
... Book for the current Year to either of them , take from such Book the Names of all Men who shall be described therein as Esquires or Persons of higher Degree , or as Bankers or Merchants , and shall respectively cause the Names of all ...
Page xv
... Book , in addition to those already taken from the Special Jurors List , as shall be required to make up the full Number of Forty - eight Names , all and every of which Forty - eight Names shall in such Case be equally deemed and taken ...
... Book , in addition to those already taken from the Special Jurors List , as shall be required to make up the full Number of Forty - eight Names , all and every of which Forty - eight Names shall in such Case be equally deemed and taken ...
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Page xlvii - ... purporting to be signed by the Clerk of the Court or other Officer having the custody of the Records of the Court where the offender was first convicted, or by the Deputy of such Clerk or Officer...
Page 7 - ... the justice shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the convicting justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) to commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
Page 7 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of felony ; and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, *or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years : and, if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment...
Page 9 - ... and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any term not exceeding three years...
Page 8 - Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years nor less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Three Years...
Page liii - Court, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of Seven Years, or to suffer such other Punishment by Fine or Imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award...
Page lxiv - Act passed or to be passed, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory before the fact to the principal felony, together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 11 - ... may commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, as the justice shall think fit, for any term not exceeding two calendar months, unless such sum and costs be sooner paid...
Page lxix - ' for Costs shall be paid to [the Complainant^. Given '• under my Hand and Seal, the Day and Year first above mentioned.