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Thornton (C.J.)
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Prerogative of mercy
(see that title) were abolished in 1819 by 56 Geo. 3, c. 46, in consequence of Ashford v. Thornton, (1818) 1 B&A 405. Blackstone observes that the King could not pardon a common nuisance while it remains … self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath that, though not false, was fatuous: ibid. p. 661. The power
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