Other instances of the peine forte et dure occurred in this very reign of Elizabeth, with whose history Mr. Froude is so very familiar.
The central incident of this novel is that most extraordinary of all punishments known to English criminal law, the peine forteet dure.
He surrendered himself to justice, and stood mute at the bar, and, in order to secure his estates to his surviving child, he had the resolution to die under the dreadful punishment of peine forte.
In the ancient law of peine forte et dure an exception is expressly made of all cases of regicide.
For his contumacy he was sentenced to undergo the peine forte et dure, or, in other words to be pressed to death.
Apropos of the peine forte et dure, in March, 1674, a man living at Cannock was arraigned at the Stafford Assizes for the murder of his father, mother, and wife.
Chief Justice Glyn reasoned with him at length, but could not alter his decision, and he was duly sentenced to the peine forte et dure.
There are continual references to the peine forte et dure in the legal records throughout the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
The peine forteet dure remained one of the pillars of our law until the reign of George III.
The judgment of the peine forte et dure, on an instance of which our ballad is founded, was well known in the ancient law of England.
If the defendant, however, stood mute, obstinately refusing to answer, by which behaviour he preserved his estates to his family, he was sentenced to undergo the judgment of the peine forte et dure.
He desisted from his purpose, and having surrendered himself to justice, in order to secure his estates to this child, he had the resolution to die under the dreadful judgment of the peine forte et dure.
As the result of your refusal, you have had applied to you the peine forte et dure; and the second reading of the said parchment, on which is written the declaration and confession of your accomplices, was made to you, but in vain.
The practice of Peine forte et dure gave the name of "Press-yard" to a part of Newgate, and the terrible machine above referred to was probably in the form of a rack.
One of the most barbarous and cruel of the punishments of our English statutes was that distinguished by the name of Peine forte et dure, or pressing to death with every aggravation of torture.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peine forte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
