Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... lished, or which are enumerated in any statute among offences against the peace, or persons who have been denounced by men worthy of credit, or who in the judgment of Mr. Chancellor or his commissary or Vice-Chancellor, or the deputy of the latter, have been reasonably suspected thereof, are to have no power of appeal either from any interlocutory decree, on pretence of grievance, nor from any definitive sentence on the pretence of injustice; but notwithstanding any appeal, are bound to obey his decree or sentence, provided only, that where any penalty is set upon offenders he does not impose a severer than is appointed by the statutes. Chapter 17. Of Causes wherein it is doubtful whether an Appeal should be allowed or not. Should it so happen that a party is convicted or condemned for any offence, concerning which a doubt may be entertained whether it is a breach of the peace, or whether it is comprised in any class of the offences contained in the last statute, or whether a party accused of such an offence is admissible to appeal, or otherwise; it is ordained, that (when any appeal is made on an occasion of the kind) the ViceChancellor shall, within three days, nominate two doctors who have once held the office of proctor (if any such there be in the University), else any other two doctors, and the proctors of the current year shall nominate two others of the same condition, or at least two masters who have served the office of proctors, who, together with the regius professor of law, or (in his absence) the senior graduate in the same faculty, then present in the University, shall (on a summary view of the nature of the case) be bound to determine within four days from the time of nomination whether the appeal is allowable. And that...