Category: History - British
In this age of ours, distinguished principally for the variety of the inventions and the fast and furious pace at which we move; when the motto of the Captains of Industry, being paraphrased, is simply, that “Motion means Money”; when the politicians vie with each other in the...
In this age of ours, distinguished principally for the variety of the inventions and the fast and furious pace at which we move; when the motto of the Captains of Industry, bein...
2. CHAPTER I.As the basis of the marriage contract is the necessity of society for some rule for the appropriation of the opposite sexes to one another and the protection of that relation, w...
3. Scene I.)[77] During the reign of George I. and George II., the wedding ring was placed on the usual finger at marriage and then transferred to the thumb. Wood’s “Wedding Day in All Ages...
4. CHAPTER II._Witch_, is taken from the Hebrew word, rendered _venefica_, meaning a poisoner and divineress; one who dabbles in spells and fortune-telling.[1] In course of time, the term was...
5. CHAPTER III.“Of all the virtues, Justice is the best, Valour without it is a common pest. ... All other virtues dwell but in the blood, That in the soul, and gives the name of good; Justice...
6. CHAPTER IV.Trial by battle, sometimes called “wager of battel,” or “battile,” as Bouvier refers to it, could be claimed in appeals of felony and in certain civil cases and was of frequent...
7. CHAPTER V.Trial by ordeal was the method used to ascertain the guilt or innocence of a person accused of crime, according to his ability to perform certain acts, or accomplish results whi...
8. CHAPTER VI._Peine forte et dure_,[1] or, the “strong and hard pain,” as it was most appropriately termed, was the name given in Europe to the particular kind of punishment formerly inflict...
9. CHAPTER VII.Wager of law, in ancient England, was the practice whereby the defendant was allowed to make oath denying the charge of the complainant and supporting his oath by the oaths of a...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Engrossed as the profession is today with the agitation for the betterment of our remedial procedure, it will sometimes prove profitable to turn aside from the progress of our t...
11. CHAPTER IX.The privilege of sanctuary, sometimes called the privilege of asylum, was the exemption afforded criminals, taking refuge in certain consecrated places, from the ordinary operat...
12. CHAPTER X.In the broader sense, punishment includes any pain or detriment suffered in consequence of wrong-doing, but as treated of in this chapter, it means the pain or other penalty imp...
13. CHAPTER XI.The right to dispose of one’s property, by will, consistent with existing rules of law, is one of the results of man’s social condition, based upon an instinctive sentiment, aki...