| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1832 - 874 pages
...Mansfield considered mischievous and illegal; for 1831. CASES IN HILARY TERM, he said — " to enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in...which no Englishman would wish to live an hour; it was a most daring public attack, made upon the liberty of a subject;" and his Lordship thought that... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1844 - 300 pages
...When a new trial was moved for misdirection, his Lordship spoke these memorable words — " To enter a man's house, by virtue of a nameless warrant, in...the liberty of the subject, and in violation of the 29th chapter of Magna Charta (Nullus liber homo, &c.), which is directly pointed against that arbitrary... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 738 pages
...hustings ; but the judicial opinion of a Chief Justice. And the Chief Justice added, — " It would be э law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour. It was a most daring public attack made upon the liberty of the subject." Really there seemed to be very... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...trial, and I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages. To enter a man's house under colour of a nameless warrant in order to procure evidence,...which no Englishman would wish to live an hour; — it was a most daring attack on the liberty of the subject. ' Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur,... | |
| 1850 - 618 pages
...the indignation of the virtuous Chief Justice Pratt : — "To entera man's house," he exclaimed, " by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure...the liberty of the subject, and in violation of the 29th chapter of Magna Charta, (Nvlha liber homo, £c.:) which is directly pointed against that arbitrary... | |
| 1850 - 622 pages
...the indignation of the virtuous Chief Justice Pratt : — " To enter a man's house," he exclaimed, " by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure...the liberty of the subject, and in violation of the 29th chapter of Magna Charta, (Niilliis liber homo, <£c.,) which is directly pointed against that... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pages
...trial, and I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages. To enter a man's house under colour of a nameless warrant in order to procure evidence,...which no Englishman would wish to live an hour; — it was a most daring attack on the liberty of the subject. 'Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...trial, and I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages. To enter a man's house under colour of a nameless warrant in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition—a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour;—it was a most daring attack... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 422 pages
...without question, libel after conviction, so as to prevent seuVOL. TI. 2 B a man's house under colour of a nameless warrant in order to procure evidence,...no Englishman would wish to live an hour ; — it was a most daring attack on the liberty of the subject. ' Nullus liber homo capiatur vel imprisonetur,... | |
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