 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - Law - 2000 - 3301 pages
...all establishments or regulations, contravening these rights, are oppressive and unjust. XIII. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. XIV. That every, freeman has a right to be secure from all... | |
 | Karl-Peter Sommermann - Constitutional law - 1997 - 630 pages
...(Anm. 408), Bd. 1, S. 375-379. Vgl. zuvor bereits die Virginia Declaration of Rights (Ziff. 9): »That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.« Wörtlich übereinstimmend etwa: Ziff. XXII der Maryland... | |
 | A. E. Dick Howard - History - 1998 - 80 pages
...One need only recall, by way of example, the declaration in the English Bill of Rights of 1689 that "excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," and the almost identical language of Amendment Eight of the... | |
 | Andy Williams - Political Science - 1998 - 230 pages
...deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers. Section 9 That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Section 10 That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger... | |
 | Akhil Reed Amar - Law - 1998 - 448 pages
...8ubject, and 8ettling the 8uccession of the Crown (Bill of Rightsl, 1689, 1 W. &. M., ch. a, §10 (Eng.l ("excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"l. The language of the Eighth Amendment substitutes "shall... | |
 | Roland Adickes - Political Science - 2017 - 175 pages
...England, London: Longman, reprint 1952, Vol. 2, p. 270). The English Bill of Rights says in Section 10: excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Kurland, Vol. 5, p. 369, No. 2, Bill of Rights, Sec. 10 [16... | |
 | Nihal Jayawickrama - Law - 2002 - 1104 pages
...were intended to protect the rights of Parliament, although at least one was more general in nature: '(10) That excessive Bail ought not to be required, nor excessive Fines imposed; nor cruel and unusual Punishments inflicted.'44 While these concessions were obtained by feudal barons... | |
 | Mireille Delmas-Marty, J. R. Spencer - Law - 2002 - 840 pages
...'constitutional' statute in this area is the Bill of Rights Act 1688, a clause of which provides 'that excessive bail ought not to be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted'. This was passed in reaction to the very severe penalties (including... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 362 pages
...Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be question'd in any Court or Place out of Parliament. That excessive Bail ought not to be required, nor excessive Fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual Punishments inflicted. That Jurors ought to be duly impanel'd and return'd. and that... | |
 | Stuart BANNER, Stuart Banner - History - 2009 - 398 pages
...stock verbal formula. It originally appeared in the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which declared that "excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." That sentence was copied into Virginia's Declaration of Rights... | |
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That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. 10. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual... 
