 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 834 pages
...the knowledge of the law upon but the fact. the matter, they may ; yet it is dangerous, for if they mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint; therefore to find the special matter is the safest way, where the case is doubtful. 1 Inst. 228. But if the jury... | |
 | Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Thomas Coventry - 1830 - 716 pages
...knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do, for if they mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint ; therefore to find the special matter is the safest way where the case is doubtful. SECTION 369. [228&] [Of pleas... | |
 | George Worthington - 1840 - 72 pages
...they will take upon them the know" ledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for " them so to do ; for if they do mistake the law, they run in danger of " an attaint: therefore to find the special matter, is the safest way, " where the case... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1852 - 506 pages
...(as Littleton here saith) the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do, for if they do mistake the law,...they run into the danger of an attaint ; therefore to find the special matter is the safest way where the case is doubtful.' for murder arising out of... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 pages
...saith) the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them to do so, for, if they do mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint; therefore, to find the special matter is the safest way, where the case is doubtful. Co. Lit. 228 b. It seems... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1854 - 622 pages
...they will take upon them the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do ; for, if they do mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint." Coke Litt. 228. "The jury may render a special verdict when they doubt the matter of law, and therefore... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 pages
...Criminal Cases. edge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them to do so, for, if they do mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint ; therefore, to find the special matter is the safest way, where the case is doubtful. Co. Lit. 228 b. It secms... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1858 - 666 pages
...them (as LITTLETON says) the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do ; for if they do mistake the law, they ran into the danger of an attaint ; therefore, to find the special matter i.the safest way where the... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 660 pages
...they will take upon them the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do, for if they do mistake the law," &c. Why dangerous, except it is going beyond their duty, and beyond the trust reposed in them ? And... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1864 - 450 pages
...correct. The sentence in Coke's Commentary concludes thus : " Yet it is dangerous for them [the jury] so to do, for, if they do mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint ; therefore to find the special matter " (ie the fact without applying the law to it) " is the safest way where... | |
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Although the jury, if they will take upon them (as Littleton here saith) the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous for them so to do, for if they do mistake the law, they run into the danger of an attaint; therefore to... 
