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Court-leet
reorganized all such boroughs as were left untouched by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. All offences cognizable in the leet are inquired of and presented by the suitors of the court, sworn and charged as … subjects, as they respectively grew to years of discretion and strength, to come to the Court-leet, and there take the oath of allegiance to theking. The other general business is to present by jury all crimes whatsoever
Piracy
passages introduced, yet, if these alterations be merely colourable, and it is really an attempt to profit by taking the ideas of another, the publication is a piracy. An author who has been led by a former … 3, c. 2), it is held to be only felony in a subject. Formerly this offence was only cognizable by the Admiralty Courts, which proceed by the rules of the civil law, but it being inconsistent with
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