Lectures On History, And General Policy: to Which is Prefixed, An Essay On a ...
Lectures On History, And General Policy: to Which is Prefixed, An Essay On a ...
Priestley Joseph
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Many thin^^s in the prefent ftate of any law are unintelligible without the knowledge of the hiftory and progrefs of it. Thus it may well puzzle a perfon to account for the late Englifli practice of crufting a perfon to death who will not plead. But the reafon is, that the Englifh adhered to the original notion, that a proccfs of law implies a judicial contrary and that there can be no procefs unlefs the defendant fubmits to have bis caufe tried. 39S . LECTURES ON Paet V, tried. Formerly it was... afluaUy at tbeir option^ to icoept of the umger •fcmfdmt^ or wugtr rfl^w^ as it was called. In maojr parts of Europe no perfon can be executed till he has confefid bis crime. In this cafe they have recourfe xo torture. The fr$fi§M •f law has always been reckoned honourable in Civilised countries. All the youth of diftin&ioo at Viioat fludied the law, and the pleading of caufes was the ccmftantand well-Jbiown road to popularity and preferment ; though perhaps a regard for ikfuenciy as much as for law, might be the reafooof it.
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