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  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    or Asylum, a Sanctuary; or Place of Refuge and Protection, where a Criminal who shelters himself is deemed inviolable, and not to be touched by any Officer of Justice. See REFUGE, PRIVILEGE, etc. The Word Asylum is Latin: Servius derives it from the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    In Poland, before Christianity was established, they punished adultery and fornication in a very particular manner: The criminal they carried into the market-place, and there fastened him by the testicles with a nail; laying a razor within his reach,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    Civil Law; because the sea is without the limits of the Common Law, and under the Admiral's jurisdiction.See CIVIL LAW. In criminal affairs, which ordinarily relate to piracy, the proceedings in this court were anciently likewise by information and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCUSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCUSATION

    ACCUSATION, Accusatio, in the Civil Law, the initiating a criminal Action against any one, either in one's own Name, or that of the Publick. See ACTION, and CRIMINAL. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser for publick Crimes; every private...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    receive abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness, shall reign in Life by one, Jesus Christ." For, if all become criminal by one, then are Children criminal. Consequently, if all are justified by one, then are Children justified. But this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANTEJURAMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTEJURAMENTUM

    and Accused were obliged to make before any Trial or Purgation. The Accuser was to swear that he would prosecute the Criminal; and the Accused was to make Oath on the very Day that he was to undergo the Ordeal, etc., that he was innocent of the Fact of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    usually contrive the Auto to fall on some great festival; so that the execution may pass with more awe and regard. The criminals are first led to church, where their sentence is read to them, either of condemnation or absolution. Those condemned to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    for Life ; or an Oath taken, to sorsake the Realm for ever. See BANISHMENT. This, in some Cases, was admitted from Criminals in lieu of Death. The Devotion for the Church was so warm, from the Time of Edward the Confessor to the Reformation, that is a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology

  • AURIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURIS

    inflicted by the Saxon laws on those who robbed churches; and afterwards on every thief, and at length on divers other criminals. See PUNISHMENT. AURIS

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AXILLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AXILLA

    of the many blood-vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc. thereabout, which form large plexus’s. See ULCER. By the ancient laws, criminals were to be hanged by the axilla, if they were under the age of puberty. See HANGING, PUBERTY, etc. AXILLA, in botany, is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    Heir Loom. Teslament, Executor, Administrator, Ordinary. Judgment, Fieri sacias, &c. 3°, Wrongs or Injuries ; either Criminal, and'to Persons, as Treason, Parricide, Murder, Felony, Assault, Rape, Assassin. Adultery, Fornication, Defloration, Polygamy,...

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  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Heir Loom. Teslament, Executor, Administrator, Ordinary. Judgment, Fieri sacias, &c.---- 3°, Wrongs or Injuries ; either Criminal, and'to Persons, as Treason, Parricide, Murder, Felony, Assault, Rape, Assassin. Adultery, Fornication, Defloration,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    it, I antiquate it ; or I like the antient Law, and desire no Innovation. See SUFFRAGE, CENTURY, &c. In the Trials of Criminal Causes, the same Letter A denoted Absolution : whence Cicero, pro Milone, calls A, Littera salutaris, a Saving Letter. Three...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar

  • APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL

    in Common Law in the same sense as Accusatio among the Civilians. See ACCUSATION. For, as in the Civil Law, Cognizance of criminal Cases is taken either upon Inquisition, Accusation, or Denunciation; so in ours it is taken either upon Indictment or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    hitherto spoke of—Our Assize may be defined a Court, Place, or Time where, and when Writs and Processes, either civil or criminal, or both, are considered, dispatched, decided, etc. by Judges and Jury. See PROCESS, COURT, DAY, JURY, &c. In this Sense,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    come Warrants for making out Patents, Pardons, etc. He is at the Head of managing all Law-Affairs of the Crown, either in criminal Prosecutions or otherwise; especially in Matters of Treason, Sedition, etc. In all Courts he pleads within the Bar; but...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    Impediment of Marriage, does not only follow an Affinity contracted by lawful Matrimony, but also that contracted by a criminal Commerce; with this difference, that this last does not extend beyond the second Generation; whereas the other, as has been...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    or other qualified Person; and differs from a simple Excommunication in this, that an Excommunication only prohibits the Criminal from entering within the Church, or holding Communion with the Faithful; whereas an Anathema cuts him off from the Body,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    naked terms; without exordium, epilogue, passions, etc. See EXORDIUM, EPILOGUE, etc. At first they only took cognizance of criminal causes, but in course of time their jurisdiction became of greater extent. Mr. Spon, who examined the antiquities ofthat...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ; as Absolutio à sævis, which is necessary where a Person has been concern'd in seeing Sentence of Death executed on a Criminal, or has any other way disqualisy'd himself for the holding of a Benefice. Absolutio ad Cautelam, is that granted to a Person...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law
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