 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 pages
...extent and vigor; and in describing the offence, has likewise RETAINED the ancient mode of expression, when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, &c. and thereof be upon sufficient proof, provablement, attainted of open deed, by people of his condition... | |
 | 1845 - 554 pages
...extent and vigor; and in describing the offence, has likewise RETAINED the ancient mode of expression, when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, &c. and thereof be upon sufficient proof, provablement, attainted of open deed, by people of his condition... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1845 - 1018 pages
...lords and commons, hatk •» a declaration in the manner as hereafter followeth : that is to say, man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or o/ clady his queen, or of their eldest son and heir," [which words extend the case of a queen regnant,... | |
 | William Charles Townsend - 1846 - 564 pages
...doctrine of constructive treasons. The simple words of the statute of Edward, that treason shall be said, when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, had been interpreted to extend to any conspiracy to levy war in order to put any personal restraint... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...since the statute of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Edward the Third, the words of which are, " When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king," it has been holden, that a person not compos mentis is incapable of compassing or imagining; and, consequently,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1847 - 468 pages
...statute, which is still considered the foundation of the treason law. This enacts that it is treason " when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady the queen, or of their eldest son and heir : or if a man do violate the king's companion, or the king's... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 784 pages
...THE first article of high treason declared by the statute of 25 E. 3. is this, and in these words: " the queen, or of their eldest son [ 92 ] and heir." Upon this division there will be these considerations.... | |
 | William Martin - 1847 - 252 pages
...members are joined into one body so to act. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. 13. HIGH TREASON is denned to be when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king or our lady the queen, or their eldest son or heir. The traitor is punished according to law, by being... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 774 pages
...not, the king at the request of the lords and of the commons hath made a declaration in the manner, as hereafter followeth: that is to say, when a man doth compass or imagine[l] the death of our lord the king, or our lady his queen, or of. their eldest son and heir... | |
 | 1848 - 558 pages
...describes what offences only, for the future, should be held to be treason. That statute enacts that " When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, of our lady his Queen, or of their eldest son and heir, and thereof be provably attainted of open deed... | |
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When a Man doth compass or imagine the Death of our Lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest Son and Heir... 
