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"Criminal law" Quotes from Famous Books

... during this winter that Marilla M. Ricker of New Hampshire, then studying criminal law in Washington and already having quite an extensive practice, applied to the commissioners of the District of Columbia for an appointment as notary public. The question of the eligibility of woman to the office was referred to the district-attorney, Hon. ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... very short, and seemed to have been given almost with indolence. The one point on which he insisted was the difference between such evidence of bribery as would deprive a man of his seat, and that which would make him subject to the criminal law. By the criminal law a man could not be punished for the acts of another. Punishment must follow a man's own act. If a man were to instigate another to murder he would be punished, not for the murder, but for the instigation. They were now administering the criminal law, and they were bound to give ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... assassin. The proof that he was restored to full possession of his faculties was, that a question of criminal law crossed his brain. ...

— The Widow Lerouge - The Lerouge Case • Emile Gaboriau

... the arithmetic of time would probably not have been drawn on, but summary recourse would have been made to such punishment as eternity could furnish. But we must not be too exacting. Let us be grateful that the criminal law has any shield, be it of the thinnest, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

... the very question whether a given statutory liability is a penalty or a tax. On the answer to this question depends the decision whether conduct is legally wrong or right, and also whether a man is under compulsion or free. Leaving the criminal law on one side, what is the difference between the liability under the mill acts or statutes authorizing a taking by eminent domain and the liability for what we call a wrongful conversion of property where restoration is out of the question. In both cases ...

— The Path of the Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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