 | Richard Burn - 1842 - 898 pages
...Will. c. 3, which enacteth, that " upon the trial of any peer or peeress for treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in parliament shall be summoned twenty days at least before every such trial, to appear at every such trial, and... | |
 | Thomas Christopher Banks - 1843 - 322 pages
...point not established, and not on the journals of the house. On the trial of peers in criminal matters, all the peers, who have a right to sit and vote in parliament, are to be duly summoned twenty days at least before the trial, to appear and vote at the same ; every... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1844 - 986 pages
...those of the crown. The lords, in their own behalf, added a clause, enacting, That upon the trials of any peer or peeress, for treason or misprision...ensued. The point was argued with great vivacity on both sides, which served only to inflame the dispute, and render each party the more tenacious of their... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1844 - 514 pages
...to be .,,.,- f ,. .i . . . summoned. the trial of any peer or peeress for high treason or mispnsion, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament, shall be duly summoned 20 days at least before every such trial ; and that every peer so summoned and... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - 588 pages
...trea- as those of the crown. The Lords, in their own behalf, son' added a clause, enacting, that upon a trial of any peer or peeress, for treason or misprision...ensued. The point was argued with great vivacity on both sides, which served only to inflame the dispute, and render each party the more tenacious of their... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 582 pages
...as well as those of the crown. The Lords, in their own behalf, added a clause, enacting, that upon a trial of any peer or peeress, for treason or misprision...ensued. The point was argued with great vivacity on both sides, which served only to inflame the dispute, and render each party the more tenacious of their... | |
 | 1848 - 558 pages
...him. The indictment is then removed into this court by writ of certiorari. By the 7 Will. 3, c. 3, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament, shall be summoned at least twenty days before such trial, to appear and vote therein ; and every lord... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 pages
...addresses a precept to a Serjeant at arms, to summon the Lords to attend and try the indicted peer. All the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament are summoned, at least twenty days before such trial, to appear and vote therein, and every Lord appearing... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1851 - 688 pages
...III. c. 3, it is enacted, " That upon the trial of any peer or peeress for high treason or misprision, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in Parliament, shall be duly summoned twenty 1 99 Hans. Deb. 3d Ser. 1050 (23d June 1848); 80 Lords' J. 415. 9 4 Lord... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 520 pages
...oath, as well as those of the crown. The lords in their own behalf added a clause, enacting, that on the trial of any peer or peeress for treason or misprision...that every peer so summoned and appearing should vote on the occasion : the commons rejected this amendment, and a free conference ensued. The point was... | |
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That upon the trial of any peer or peeress, for treason or misprision of treason, all the peers who have a right to sit and vote in parliament should be duly summoned to assist at the trial; That this notice should be given twenty days before the trial:... 
