 | Harold M. Weber - 1996 - 310 страници
...c.2, "A declaration which offenses shall be adjudged treason," and specifically to the clause stating that "treason shall be said . . . When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King."62 According to John Bellamy, between 1352 and 1485 "the most important development in the interpretation... | |
 | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History - 1996 - 540 страници
...and frequent application, have now an understood and and established sense, ‘that if a person do compass or imagine the death of our Lord the King' ‘or if a person do levy war against our Lord the King, in this Province, or be adherent to the King's enemies... | |
 | Marilyn Morris - 1998 - 252 страници
...general contentment. He discussed the sections of 25 Edward III that were most relevant to the case: "When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king, or of our lady his queen, or of his eldest son and heir. Or if a man levy war against our lord the king... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - 1999 - 308 страници
...formulation is located in the famous statute of 1352, the progenitor of all subsequent legislation: "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" (25 Edward II 5 c. 2). The act was revised,... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - 1999 - 504 страници
...majesty itself, it is then called by way of eminent distinction high treason. This crime arises whenever 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,... | |
 | John Barrell - 2000 - 860 страници
...the English and Scottish treason trials of 1794 — is the first. It is treason, says the statute, 'when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king*. What did this strange clause mean? and what could or might it be taken to mean in 1794? The meaning... | |
 | Frederick Bernays Wiener - 2009 - 528 страници
...to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. (ii) St. 25 Edward III, stat. 5, c. 2: * * * if a man do levy war against our Lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or... | |
 | Patrick M. Geoghegan - 2002 - 388 страници
...statute of King Edward III, dating from 1351, treason was rigidly defined in the eighteenth century as 'when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king'. 41 The 25 Edward III had only been intended as a 'Declaratory' Act, but instead it was now taken as... | |
 | David Stechern - 2003 - 190 страници
...1083 Gordon, Kapitel 37, Rdnr. 1. 1084 „compassing or imagining the death of the sovereign (...); or if a man do levy war against our Lord the King in his realm or be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or... | |
 | Mark Neocleous - 2003 - 184 страници
...formed part of the common vocabulary of political discussion.8 It was once held that it is treason 'when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king'. Its usage in this context (the Statute of Treasons of 1351, 25 Edward III) tells us that part of the... | |
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Queen or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm... 
