A Letter to the Queen on a Late Court Martial

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William Blackwood & Sons, 1850 - 262 páginas
 

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Página 143 - All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects, which officers and soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, though not mentioned in the foregoing articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by a general, or a regimental, garrison, or field officers' court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and punished at the discretion of such court.
Página 4 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy, if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it ; and, indeed, it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy ; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Página 195 - Ñeque enim id est celare, quidquid reticeas, sed cum, quod tu scias, id ignorare emolumenti tui causa velis eos, quorum intersit id scire.
Página 7 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law...
Página 261 - Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision : — The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence...
Página 231 - Whatsoever Commissioned Officer shall be convicted before a General CourtMartial, of behaving in a scandalous, infamous Manner, such as is unbecoming the Character of an Officer and a Gentleman, shall be discharged from the Service.
Página 6 - ... continues the same learned author, "for injury done to him in bonis, in terris, vel persona, by any other subject, be he ecclesiastical or temporal without any exception, may take his remedy by the course of the law, and have justice and right for the injury done to him, freely without sale, fully without any denial, and speedily without delay.
Página 146 - Court-martial, on the charge of " scandalous and infamous conduct, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman,
Página 259 - NI, was arraigned on the following charge : viz. " For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, on various occasions, but more particularly on the morning of the 5th inst.
Página 109 - Court can a party be compelled to answer any question, accusing himself, or any one in a series of questions, that has a tendency to that effect: the rule in these cases being, that he is at liberty to protect himself against answering, not only the direct question, whether he did what was illegal, but also every question, fairly appearing to be put with the view of drawing from him an answer, containing nothing to affect him, except as it is one link in a chain of proof that is to affect him...

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