...that whoever thus drew blood should be punished with the utmost severity, but the courts held that it did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person falling down in the street in a fit." The application of these just and sensible views to the facts...

...the case of the prisoner breaking prison, and to a passage in PuffendorfF upon the law of Bologna, which enacted that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity, but which was held not to extend (/) Reniger v. Fogassa, Plowd. 13. (g) Partridge v. Strange, Plowd....

...Bac. Abr., stat 1, §§ 5 and 10, and authorities cited. The familiar.illustration is that when it was enacted " that whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity," it was held not to include a surgeon who opened the vein of a person having a fit in the street. Plowden...

...that whoever thus drew blood should be punished with the utmost severity, but the courts held that it did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person falling down in the street in a fit. The application sought to be made of that law to the surgeon was...

...that whoever thus drew blood should be punished with the utmost severity, but the courts held that it did not extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person falling down in the street in a fit. The application sought to be made of that law to the surgeon was...

...such an equitable construction as Is contrary to the letter." The oft-cited instance of the Bologna law, which enacted that whoever drew blood In the...streets should be punished with the utmost severity, was wisely held not to apply to the barber who opened the veins of a sick man to aid in his cure. The...

...this was obiter, not being a point necessarily involved in the decision of the case. A Bolognian law enacted that "whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity." But this law was held not to extend to the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell down in...

...the surgeon who opened the vein of a man who fell down In the street with a fit, under the enactment that whoever drew blood In the streets should be punished with the utmost severity (Blackstoue, Com. 61), and would have approved the suggestion of Pericles that an obligation of persons...

...of murder. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Puffendorf, that the Bolognian law which enacted "that whoever drew blood in the...the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1st K'lward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks prison shall be guilty of felony, does not...

...the letter. The common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned by Putfendorf, that the Bolognian law, which enacted 'that whoever drew blood in the...down in the street in a fit. The same common sense Opinion of the Court — Leonard, J. accepts the ruling cited by Plowden, that the statute of 1 Edward...