But in the progress of civilization and Society, the nature of this crime became better understood; private revenge was submitted to the power of the Law; and the good King Alfred first made Murder a capital offence in England.
It is a capital offence by the civil law, although by Act of Parliament, it may be heard and determined, according to the rules of the common law, as if the offence had been committed on land.
Brady locked them up in a cell, and offered liberty to the prisoners he found there; one of whom, who was charged with a capital offence, for which he was afterwards executed, declined the opportunity to escape.
Being taken before a magistrate, both his absconding and his resistance were stated--the last a capital offence.
Armed robbers were pursued and extirpated as the enemies of society; the driving away of horses or cattle was made a capital offence, but simple theft was uniformly considered as a mere civil and private injury.
A voluntary death which, in the case of a capital offence, intervened between the accusation and the sentence, was admitted as a confession of guilt, and the spoils of the deceased were seized by the inhuman claims of the treasury.
Here Mr. Felsh calls for a volume of Prince's Digest, from which he instructs the jury upon several important points of the law made and provided for making the striking a white person by a slave or person of colour a capital offence.
Until 1887 poaching by night under arms was a capital offence.
Waltham Black Act, passed because of the depredations of disguised deer-stealers in Epping Forest, it was under certain circumstances made a capital offence.
Among the early Romans the same feeling was carried so far, that for a long time it was actually a capital offence to slaughter an ox, that animal being pronounced, in a special sense, the fellow-labourer of man.
Tertullian described the intermarriage as fornication;(770) and after the triumph of the Church, the intermarriage of Jews and Christians was made a capital offence, and was stigmatised by the law as adultery.
To offer a sacrifice was to commit a capital offence; to hang up a simple chaplet was to incur the forfeiture of an estate.
A voluntary death, which, in the case of a capital offence, intervened between the accusation and the sentence, was admitted as a confession of guilt, and the spoils of the deceased were seized by the inhuman claims of the treasury.
Olivet) affirms that the decemvirs made libels a capital offence: cum perpaucas res capite sanxisent--perpaucus!
Armed robbers were pursued and extirpated as the enemies of society; the driving away horses or cattle was made a capital offence; [188] but simple theft was uniformly considered as a mere civil and private injury.
The people did not choose to see any more hanging, and till the law was so altered as to allow an alternative of punishment, no conviction for a capital offence would be obtainable.
Formerly, that was also pronounced a capital offence.
Rape, made criminal at common law by statute Westminster I; made a capital offence in 1285; penalty made death in the South as at common law; rigor of the common law preserved.
Under Henry IV is the first secular law against heresy, making it a capital offence.
It has, in some States, been made a capital offence to kidnap a child, and, as has been elsewhere said, the rigor of the common law is very generally preserved for the crime of rape.
It was also a capital offence to sit down, even unknowingly, upon the royal throne; and it was a grave misdemeanor to wear one of the king's cast-off dresses.
Hence, too, the law which made it a capital offence to address or touch one of the royal concubines or even to pass their litters upon the road.
It is not whether you have an abhorrence of convicting a prisoner of a capital offence.
Armed robbers were pursued and extirpated as the enemies of society; the driving away horses or cattle was made a capital offence; but simple theft was uniformly considered as a mere civil and private injury.
It declared the profession of Christianity to be illicit and a capital offence; but to call this law into action, or to leave it suspended as a threat over the heads of Christians, was a matter of expedience.
The profession of Christianity is not taken by itself as a capital offence.
An informer accuses Apollonius of being a Christian, at a time when the imperial laws made such an accusation a capital offence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capital offence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
