 That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders;...  Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 377by Sir William Blackstone - 1825Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...declares, that all grant* and pronoifes of fines and forfeitures of particular perfons, before convi£tion, are illegal and void. Now the bill of rights was only declaratory of the old couilitutional law: and accordingly we find it exprefsly holden, long before', that all fuch previous... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. That all grants and promises of fines, and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and •void; and,' That for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the... | |
 | 1809 - 540 pages
...sentence upon Men in Trials " for High Treason ought to be Free" holders. " XII. Tliat all Grants and Promises' " of Fines and Forfeitures of particular...Persons before Conviction are illegal " and void. " XIII. And that for Redress of all *• Grievances, and for amending, strength'• ehing, and preserving... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 pages
...Jurors which pass upon men in " trials for high treason ought to be freeholders." " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, " are illegal and void." " And that for the redress of all grievances, and " for the amending, strengthening, and preserving... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 634 pages
...Jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason " ought to be freeholders." " That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures " of particular...persons, before conviction, are illegal and " void." Further, Gentlemen, this Bill goes on to say, " For the " ratifying, confirming, and establishing the... | |
 | 1817 - 650 pages
...jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders." •' That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void." " .And that for the redress of all grievances, ind for the amending, strengthening, and preserving... | |
 | 1819 - 66 pages
...Jurors which pass upon men in trials of High-treason, ought to be Freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular Persons, before conviction, are illegal and void. 13. And that for redress of all Grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 408 pages
...jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders: that all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void ; and for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving; of the laws,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 pages
...jurors which pass upon men in trials for high-treason ought to be freeholders. 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction, are illegal and void : 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and tor the amending, strengthening, and preserving of... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 654 pages
...which pass upon men in trials for high-treason, ought to be freeholders :— 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons, before conviction, are illegal and void : — 13. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving... | |
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