 | United States. Congress - Law - 1832 - 756 pages
...this undefined power; for its apologists cannot hide its hideous features. Rhokstnnr acknowledges that it is ' not agreeable to the genius of the common law, in any other instance;' but he does nnt attempt to justify it even from necessity, and contents himself with showing that it... | |
 | Christianity - 1828 - 636 pages
...Lords. The process by attachment is contrary both to the spirit and to the letter of the great charter. It is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance ; f it cannot, therefore, be claimed by analogy, but must be derived from some statute, or from uninterrupted... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1828 - 628 pages
...Lords. The process by attachment is contrary both to the spirit and to the letter of the great charter. It is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance ; t it cannot, therefore, be claimed by analogy, but must be derived from some statute, or from uninterrupted... | |
 | Asia - 1828 - 878 pages
...But though, as Blackstone observes, ' the making a defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance, 'f still this mode of proceeding is in some respects favourable to the person accused. For Blackstone,... | |
 | Asia - 1828 - 1102 pages
...But though, as Blackstone observes, ' the making a defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance.'t still this mode of proceeding is in some respects favourable to the person accused. For... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 768 pages
...undefined power ; for its apologists cannot hide its hideous features. Blackstone acknowledges that it " is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance ;'' but he does not attempt to justify it even from necessity, and contents himself with showing that... | |
 | Edward Livingston - Crime - 1833 - 768 pages
...undefined power ; for its apologists cannot hide its hideous features. Blackstone acknowledges that it " is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance ;" but he does not attempt to justify it even from necessity, and contents himself with showing that... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 486 pages
...there is no jury ; the accused party may bo called upon to answer on oath (a course, says Blackstonc, not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance), and the court may fine and imprison ad infinUum. Large powers, and larger than County Court powers,... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - 1856 - 448 pages
...instrument inserted in it the provision ' that no person shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be witness against himself,' they had this very case...notwithstanding the provision, unless the accused would himself humbly crouch at the foot of judicial power, and swear that he had no intention to give the... | |
 | Rushmore G. Horton - Campaign literature, 1856 - 1856 - 446 pages
...compelled, in any criminal case, to be witness against himself,' they had this very case of contempt fall in their view. The power which they have forbidden...England ; but even there it ' is not agreeable to the genins of the common law in any other instance.' What case so proper could they have had in view when... | |
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It cannot have escaped the attention of the reader, that this method of making the defendant answer upon oath to a criminal charge, is not agreeable to the genius of the common law in any other instance... 
