 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1883 - 522 pages
...less than an hun" dred and sixty are declared by Act of Parliament to be 1 Cum. iv. 18. CH. XXI. " felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be " worthy of instant death." For the wantonness with which the punishment of death was thus lavished in cases in which it was never... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1883 - 734 pages
...'" worthy of instant death. So " dreadful a list, instead of di" minishing, increases the nuin" ber of offenders. The injured, " through compassion, will..."forbear to prosecute; juries, " through compassion, will some" times forget their oaths, and " either acquit the guilty or miti" gate the nature of the offence;... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1884 - 724 pages
...sixty have been declared by act of parliament (b) to be felonies without benefit of clergy; or, in words, to be worthy of instant death. So dreadful...list, instead of diminishing, increases the number r*l9l °^ °ffenders. (8) *The injured, through compassion, will often forbear ^ •'to prosecute;... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1896 - 1286 pages
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of death.3 The most objectionable and really dreadful feature of the law, undoubtedly, was the power over... | |
 | Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends - Christian socialism - 1886 - 332 pages
...contain the almost incredible statement that a hundred and sixty crimes had boon declared " by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death "; and for the great body of minor offences the punishment was "incarceration in a common jail ; both... | |
 | Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends - Christian socialism - 1886 - 336 pages
...contain the almost incredible statement that a hundred and sixty crimes had been declared " by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death "; and for the great body of minor offences the punishment was " incarceration in a common jail ; both... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1890 - 478 pages
...were ItiO offenses declared punishable without the benefit of clergy, or with instant death, said that "so dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders.'' It seems incredible that within a little more than one hundred years so trifling an act as cutting... | |
 | Sanford Moon Green - Crime - 1889 - 374 pages
...which men were daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty had been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death ; and he remarks that " so dreadful a list, instead of diminishing, increases the number of offenders."... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1896 - 1274 pages
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than 160 have been declared by act of Parliament without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of death.3 The most objectionable and really dreadful feature of the law, undoubtedly, was the power over... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - Great Britain - 1891 - 428 pages
...actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. 2 In this passage he is citing from Blackstone's Commentaries, and in a note draws attention to the... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
