 Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire, ' for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.  The Central Law Journal - Page 3541921Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1318 pages
...Plowden, that Stat. 1 Edw. II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of a felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." So I hold in this case that an act of the legislature, the undoubted purpose of which is to keep bad... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 392 pages
...street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of first Edward II, which enacts that a prisoner who breaks...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.' And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the Act of Congress which... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - International law - 1910 - 124 pages
...streets In a fit ; .the same common sense accepts the ruling, cited fcy Plowden, that the statute of 1st Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks...be hanged because he would not stay to be .burnt"; and we think that common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that an Act of Congress that punishes... | |
 | Law - 1910 - 548 pages
...street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling cited by Plowden, that the statute of ist Edw. II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison...is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned." "Such" says this Judge, "Has been the attitude of the courts and lawyers in the ever existing... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 808 pages
...street in a fit. The same common sense accepts the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1st Edward II, which enacts that a prisoner who breaks...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt.' And we think a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress which punishes... | |
 | 1911 - 106 pages
...Plowden, cites a case holding that a statute of Edward II enacting that a prisoner " who breaks jail shall be guilty of felony " does not extend to a prisoner...is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned." But in ascertaining the intent of the lawmaker and the object or purpose of a statute not... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1054 pages
...that the Statute of 1 Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of a felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." And we th'ink that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the Act of Congress which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1054 pages
...that the Statute of 1 F.dward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of a felony, does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out...be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." And we think that a like common sense will sanction the ruling we make, that the Act of Congress which... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Little magazines - 1912 - 756 pages
...prison should be guilty of felony, was held not to apply to a prisoner who broke out when the prison was on fire, "for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burnt." The court must consider the text of the Sherman Act in the light of the common law and the law of this... | |
 | Frederic René Coudert - Constitutional law - 1913 - 340 pages
...Plowden, cites a case holding that a statute of Edward II enacting that a prisoner "who breaks jail shall be guilty of felony" does not extend to a prisoner...is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be burned." But in ascertaining the intent of the lawmaker and the object or purpose of a statute, not... | |
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