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Prerogative of mercy
tit. 'Habeas Corpus,' the offence of sending a subject to a foreign prison against s. 12 of that enactment was made unpardonable by the King. … who formed the Special Commission before whom Frost and others were tried for high treason in 1839, see Queen v. Frost, (1839) 4 St Tr (NS) 85 (479, 480). The anomaly of pardoning either an innocent or … Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who
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