Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial Held at Montreal in 1838-9: Exhibiting a Complete History of the Late Rebellion in Lower Canada, Volumen1

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Armour and Ramsay, 1839
 

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Página 286 - When a person of sound memory and discretion, unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the King's peace, with malice prepense or aforethought, either express or implied :'
Página 10 - November, 1864, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought before it.
Página 6 - ... in the year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Página 140 - Case requires, subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as exist under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) to be abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada".
Página 9 - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Página 283 - This, however, seems only, or at least principally, to hold as to positive crimes, so created by the laws of society, and which therefore society may excuse; but not as to natural...
Página 274 - Of Specification twelve to Charge II, "Guilty." Of Specification thirteen to Charge II, "Not Guilty." And the Commission does therefore sentence him, the said Henry Wirz, "to be hanged by the neck till he be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States may direct, two-thirds of the court concurring therein.
Página 283 - The only force that doth excuse is a force upon the person and present fear of death ; and this force and fear must continue all the time the party remains with the rebels.
Página 139 - Experience of more than nine years, during which it has been uniformly administered; be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the same shall continue to be administered, and shall be observed as Law in the Province of Quebec, as well in the Description and Quality of the Offence as in the Method of Prosecution and Trial...
Página 12 - ... rebellion, whether such persons shall have been taken in open arms against his Majesty, or shall have been otherwise concerned in the said rebellion, or in aiding, or...

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