10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLERGYABLE»
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1
The Law-dictionary: Explaining the Rise, Progress and ...
being burnt in the hand), for ail offences then clergyable to commoners; and also
for the crimes of house-breaking, highway-robbery, horse-stealing, and robbing
of churches. After this burning, the laity, and before it, the real clergy, were ...
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins,
1820
2
A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales: The Colonial ...
In 1806, both in England and New South Wales, the offence of breaking, entering
and stealing goods to the value of five shillings or more was non-clergyable.
Judge-Advocate Atkins and his colleagues based their finding of facts not on a ...
3
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
See clinch. clergyable; nonclergy able. Clergyable = (of an offense) susceptible
to benefit of clergy. Noncler- gyable = (of an offense) punishable without benefit
of clergy. E.g., "Although originally those entitled to benefit of clergy were simply ...
4
Irish Law Reports: Particularly of Points of Practice, ...
1844. expected to have produced some alteration in the application of the law
reason for allowing the peremptory challenge, notwithstanding the felony being
clergyable, was, because it could not be told until after a man was found guilty, ...
5
Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on ...
During the Sessions 1831[-1846] Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords,
Charles Clark, William Finnelly Jonathan Cogswell Perkins. challenge,
notwithstanding the felony being clergyable, was, because it could not be told
until after a man ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly,
1874
6
At The Instigation of the Devil": Capital Punishment and the ...
non-clergyable offence, Crown and Parliament overcame this problem. After all, it
made no difference whether someonewastohangfor non-clergyable
manslaughter by stabbing or non-clergyable murder.(15) Forourperiod under
consideration, ...
7
Reports of state trials: New series... 1820 to [1858]...
The right to challenge peremptorily has been uniformly acted on, in England,
both in felonies clergyable and not clergyable, without any distinction between
them, down to the 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 28., English (9 Geo. 4. c. 54., Irish), which
abolished ...
Sir John Macdonell, Great Britain. State Trials Committee, Sir John Edward Power Wallis,
1894
8
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
It was extended to secular clerks, then to all who could read. In 1705 this
requirement was abolished. Till 1C>92 a woman commoner could not claim it. By
act In 14S7, all persons except those in orders were, If convicted of a clergyable
felony, ...
John Bouvier, Francis Rawle,
1914
9
The ecclesiastical cyclopædia; or, Dictionary of Christian ...
The 4 George I., ch. xi., and G George I., xxiii., allowed the court to substitute
transportation for burning in the hand, which has been the mode of punishment
subsequently adopted for clergyable offences. It will be collected from the above
...
10
Revised Reports; Being a Republication of Such Cases in the ...
It was urged, in answer to this argument, that the reason for allowing the
peremptory challenge, notwithstanding the felony being clergyable, was,
because it could not be told until after a man was found guilty whether he would
pray the benefit ...
Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver August Saunders,
1904