| William Crossing - 1911 - 174 páginas
...77 Lydford law was, but also gather that in Browne's time it had passed into a proverb. I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgement after : At first I wondered at it much ; But soon I found the matter such As it deserves... | |
| John Marshall Gest - 1913 - 276 páginas
...the Border Minstrelsy, speaks also of Lydford law, a similar custom in Devonshire : — , "I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." so that the Lynch law of our own country has a very ancient and respectable pedigree. The scene of... | |
| William Sharp McKechnie - 1914 - 578 páginas
...that breathes English air." 4 The same grim tradition applied to Lidford as to Jedburgh : " I oft have heard of Lydford law,' How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." See Neilson, Trial by Combat, 131, and authorities there cited. forbade him for the future to place... | |
| 1907 - 474 páginas
...with grim humor known in Scotland as Jeddard justice. This applied also to Lydford Law. "I oft have heard of Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." . — Nielson "Trials by Combat," page 131. (27) ("An oath with oath helpers.") The plaintiff bringing... | |
| John Presland - 1920 - 274 páginas
...verses, of which I quote the following for a certain smack of tradition which they contain : " I oft have heard of Lydford law How in the morn they hang and draw And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But soon I found the matter such As it deserved no laughter. " They have a castle... | |
| American Bar Association - 1921 - 1070 páginas
...Jedwood justice, "hang in haste and try at leisure." Lydford law is thus aptly defined : " I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." designated as lynch law is as old as human society. It is older than any form of organized government.... | |
| 1924 - 566 páginas
...following quotation from " an old ballad of the time of the Great Rebellion " : I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. One lies there for a seam of salt, Another for a peck of malt, Two sureties for a noble. If tins be... | |
| Henrietta Gerwig - 1925 - 748 páginas
...loathsome and dreary that the prisoners frequently died before they could be brought to trial. I oft have heard of Lydford law. How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment later. A Devonshire Pott. Lydgate, Dr. In George Eliot's Middlemarch (qv) a doctor whose medical ideals... | |
| Edward Holdsworth Sugden - 1925 - 614 páginas
...charge us with the Law of L." W. Browne (1645) is the reputed author of a verse " I oft have heard of L. law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgement after." Blount, Clossogr. sv (1656), defines L.law "to hang men first and indite them afterwards."... | |
| Rodney Loomer Mott - 1926 - 796 páginas
...as 'Jettart justice." The same grim tradition applied to Lidford as to Jedburgh : "I oft have herd of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." McKechnie, Magna Carta, p. 376. 14 Adams, Origin of the English Constitution, pp. 268-273. 'R Mcllwain,... | |
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