 BRIBERY is the next species of offences against public justice ; which is when a judge, or other person concerned in the administration of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 1081905Full view - About this book
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...indicted for perjury, in swearing that he believes a fact to be true, which he must know to .be false. ° Bribery is when a judge, or other person concerned...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in office. He who offers or gives, as well as he who receives this undue reward, is guilty... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1811 - 214 pages
...office, etc. BRIBERY, EMBRACERY, AND EXTORTION. I. 15 HI BF.KT. Bribery, in its most odious sense, is when a judge, or other person concerned in the...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office. In England, this offence of taking bribes is punished, in inferior officers,... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...recommended in their practice also, for the sake of uniformity and convenience* BRIBERY. Bribery is, when any person concerned in the administration of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in. his office. It is punishable by fine and imprisonment at the law or by statute, by a... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 240 pages
...clearly imperfect. We do not however object to the defect of form, but of substance. The definition of bribery is " when a judge, or other person concerned...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in office." (4 Blackstone's Com. 139.) If there be any allegation in this article that the... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...capable of bearing testimony. 17- Bribery is the next species of offence against public justice ; which is, when a judge, or other person concerned in the...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office. In England, this offence of taking bribes is punished, in inferior officers,... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 768 pages
...bribe. ART. 6. What it bribery. § 1. It is defined to be, where a judge or other person con-- cerned in the administration of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office. This is a limited CH. 202. definition of it. -Art. 6. §2. By section 21,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...humana, " dedecus." (17) 17. BRIBERY is the next species of offences against public justice ; which is when a judge, or other person concerned in the...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office '. In the east it is the custom never to petition any superior for justice,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...humana, " dedecus." (17) 17. BRIBERY is the next species of offences against public justice ; which is when a judge, or other person concerned in the...of justice, takes any undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office '. In the east it is the custom never to petition any superior for justice,... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...yet if he could sot possibly know the fact, he is as much perjured as if it had been fobe. BRIBERY. Bribery is when a judge, or other person concerned...administration of justice, takes any undue reward to inffuence his behaviour in his office. This offence is punished, in inferior officers, with fine and... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...the form of the statute in such case made and provided. Wherefore &c. [as ante, p. 137.]* BRIBERY. BRIBERY is when a judge, or other person concerned in the administration of justice, takes an undue reward to influence his behaviour in his office. He that offers, as well as he that receives... | |
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