This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...act: and 1 abstain studiously from appealing to any judicial decisions in support of them, because to fortify them by precedent or authority would be to suppose them liable to be called in question. There is another rule which I can easily excuse the learned gentleman from adverting to, and that is, that when ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...act: and 1 abstain studiously from appealing to any judicial decisions in support of them, because to fortify them by precedent or authority would be to suppose them liable to be called in question. There is another rule which I can easily excuse the learned gentleman from adverting to, and that is, that when many statutes are made in pari materid, any one of them is to be construed, not independently of the others, but with a reference to the entire code, of which it is only a component part. On these grounds, then, I say the 44th was not, and could not be intended to go to all offences whatsoever. First, because the acts of 23d and 24th of George II. had already described all persons by words of the most general and comprehensive kind. If the framers of the 13th and 44th meant to carry these acts to the same length, they had the words of the former acts before their eyes, and yet they have used very different words: a clear proof, in my mind, that they meant to convey a very different meaning. In these latter acts they use very singular wprds--. felons and other male- factors; --that these words are somewhat loose and indefinite, I make no difficulty of admitting; but will any man that understands English deny, that they describe offences of a higher and most enormous degree? You are told, that felon does not necessarily mean a capital offender, beeause there are felonies not capital, the name being derived from the forfeiture, not of life, but of property. You are also told, that malefactor means generally an ill-doer, and, in that sense, that every offender is a malefactor; but the 13th and 44th states this class to be felons and malefactors, for whose transmission from kingdom to kingdom no sufficient provision was made by the...
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