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Witchcraft, conjuration; sorcery.The practices of a witch, esp. in black magic; sorcery, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1595.By the Witchcraft Act, 1735 (so styled by the Short Titles act, 1896) (9 Geo. 2, c. 5), 'no prosecution shall be carried on against any person for witchcraft, sorcery, enactments, or conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence in Great Britain'; but it is also enacted that all persons pretending to use any kind of witchcraft, etc., shall upon conviction on indictment suffer one whole year's imprison-ment, and also be obliged to give sureties for good behaviour if the Court thinks fit [R.v. Stephenson, (1904) 68 J.P. 524] See VAGRANT. Prior to this Act witchcraft was a capital offence (see 1 & 2 Jac. 1, c. 12), and a woman and her daughter aged nine years were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to Stan as recently as 1716, this being the last execution in England for witchcraft. Pope Alexander the Sixth nominated a commission against...
H'retico comburendo, De
H'retico comburendo, De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the secular power in order that he might be burnt to death.-See Fitz. N.B. 269; Lely's Church of England Position, 179; 2 Hen. 4, c. 15; 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 6; 31 Hen. 8, c. 14. By 1 Eliz. c. 1, s. 6, all statutes relating to heresy were repealed, though somehow two men were burnt in her reign and two under James I. by 29 Car. 2, c. 9, s. 1, the writ de h'retico comburendo was abolished, but with a saving for the jurisdiction of Protestant archbishops or bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and opinions by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures not extending to death'in such sort and n...
Brand
A burning piece of wood or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt whether burning or after the fire is extinct...
Brick
A block or clay tempered with water sand etc molded into a regular form usually rectangular and sun dried or burnt in a kiln or in a heap or stack called a clamp...
Brickkiln
A kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burnt or a pile of green bricks laid loose with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them...
Burned
See Burnt...
Burnt
Consumed with or as with fire scorched or dried as with fire or heat baked or hardened in the fire or the sun...
Calcigenous
Tending to form or to become a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt as magnesium calcium etc...
Caramel
Burnt sugar a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar It is soluble in water and is used for coloring spirits gravies etc...
Combust
Burnt consumed...
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