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... Report of the Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons , of 1783 , that the appre- hensions which led to these enactments , were not without foundation , that during the whole period which elapsed between 1773 and 1782 , disorders and ...
... Report of the Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons , of 1783 , that the appre- hensions which led to these enactments , were not without foundation , that during the whole period which elapsed between 1773 and 1782 , disorders and ...
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... reports on which the bill was grounded , namely , to transfer the government of India from hands incompetent to conduct it , to the management of a Board of Commissioners appointed by Parliament , protected from the influence of ...
... reports on which the bill was grounded , namely , to transfer the government of India from hands incompetent to conduct it , to the management of a Board of Commissioners appointed by Parliament , protected from the influence of ...
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... reports to her Majesty , from the Go- vernors of the Indian Presidencies , and the Governor General , of the measures taken by them within the previous year , and those in con- templation . Much of the apathy complained of , results ...
... reports to her Majesty , from the Go- vernors of the Indian Presidencies , and the Governor General , of the measures taken by them within the previous year , and those in con- templation . Much of the apathy complained of , results ...
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... Talookdars of these provinces , by the Governor - General and Supreme Council at Fort William , that summonses , warrants , and other It appears , from the report of the Committee appointed HABEAS CORPUS IN INDIA . 43.
... Talookdars of these provinces , by the Governor - General and Supreme Council at Fort William , that summonses , warrants , and other It appears , from the report of the Committee appointed HABEAS CORPUS IN INDIA . 43.
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William Shee. It appears , from the report of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the circumstances of this dispute , that the Directors of the East India Com- pany , on the 19th of November , 1777 , sent a ...
William Shee. It appears , from the report of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the circumstances of this dispute , that the Directors of the East India Com- pany , on the 19th of November , 1777 , sent a ...
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Page 303 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Page 303 - And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.
Page 229 - Heir ; or if a Man do violate the King's Companion, or the King's eldest Daughter unmarried, or the Wife of the King's Eldest Son and Heir ; or if a Man do levy War against our Lord the King in his Realm...
Page 243 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Page 22 - But if, we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.
Page 215 - The job customarily requires full-time training for a period of not less than six months and not more than two years.
Page 178 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Page 303 - However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. To conspire to levy war, and actually to levy war, are distinct offences. The first must be brought into open action by the assemblage of men for a purpose treasonable in itself, or the fact of levying war cannot have been committed.
Page 303 - The other part of the clause, requiring the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or a confession in open court, to justify a conviction, is founded upon the same reasoning. A like provision exists in British jurisprudence, founded upon the same great policy of protecting men against false testimony and unguarded confessions, to their utter ruin.
Page 82 - ... situate on the continent of Asia, from the river Indus to the town of Malacca inclusive...