| Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...personating the proprietor of any order, .V- or nominee, tfc. shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. LX. For preventing the wilfully burning or destroying ship*, and and the wilfully and maliciously destroying... | |
| James Thomas Law - 1847 - 676 pages
...persons so offending, and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. CXIX. And be it further enacted, that if any action or suit shall Limitation be brought against any... | |
| Worthington Garrettson Snethen - History - 1848 - 100 pages
...shall of malice stand mute or peremptorily challenge above the number of twenty jurors, such slave shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy ; and any slave, who shall attempt to burn any dwelling-house or out-house contiguous to or used with any... | |
| Benjamin Chaplin Pressley - Constables - 1848 - 552 pages
...(knowing of, and privy to the ofience, as aforesaid, ) shall be and are hereby declared to be felons, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. Provided, that 412 no attainder of such felony shall extend to corrupt the blood or forfeit the dower... | |
| Samuel Miller - Land value taxation - 1849 - 354 pages
...persons so offending, and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. 195. And be it further enacted, that if any action or suit shall be Limitation of brought against any... | |
| Peter Burke - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1849 - 522 pages
...every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. It is on that act that this indictment now comes before you, that you have heard read. You see it is... | |
| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1850 - 786 pages
...intent to do some other grievous bodily harm, &c., &c., the person or persons, &c. so offending, &c. shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy." In that statute a number of acts, with a number of intents, are enumerated, any one of which subjected... | |
| William Hickman - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1851 - 364 pages
...practice whatsoever, shall, on being legally convicted of such offence, be adjuged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy;" and provides that, if any person shall be convicted of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, such person... | |
| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1851 - 552 pages
...sentenced or ordered to be transported, &c., every such offender so being at large, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy." Now it was by no means clear, that because the punishment was to be the same "as in cases of felony,"... | |
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