| Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Basil Montagu, John MacArthur - Bankruptcy - 1830 - 520 pages
...v. Thornton, 1 B. §• A. 460. " The general law of the land is in favour of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, In the matter and not gs we may W|sl1 it to be- "Whatever prejudices MARSH therefore may justly exist... | |
| Law - 1837 - 528 pages
...appellee. Lord Ellenhoroiigh, C. J.—The general 1атг of the land is in favour of the wager of battel, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices therefore may justly exist against this mode of trial,... | |
| Augustus Charles VELEY - Church tax - 1843 - 274 pages
...privilege was claimed ? He said, " The general law of the land is in favour of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial, still... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - Ecclesiastical law - 1843 - 662 pages
...said Lord Ellenborough ? " The general law of the land is times, in favour of the wager of battel, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be : whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial,... | |
| William Calverley Curteis - Ecclesiastical law - 1844 - 938 pages
...barbarism ? Lord Ellenborough said, (a) " the general law of the land is in favour of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be ; whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial,... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 900 pages
...abolition, "is in favor of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it ie, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore,...trial, still, as it is the law of the land, the court muet pronounce judgment for it." — Barnewall and Alderson'i Report», i. 460. CHAP. HI.] HISTORY... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 784 pages
...delivering the opinion of the Court, said, "The general law of the land is in favour of the wager of battel, (u as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial,... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - Criminal law - 1847 - 774 pages
...delivering the Dpinion of the Court, said, "The general law of the land in in favour of the wager of battel, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial,... | |
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