The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-02-06


IL am strong and healthy woman today,
from taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. which
keep in the house for all the family" Mrs.
FANNIE BALCH, 10S Leverett St., Lowell Mass.
II consider Hoods Sarsaparilla the best
blood-puriier In the world" MRS. JENNIE
Il. CARLTON, 113 Liberty St., Lowell, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold everywhere.
In the usual liquid, or in tablet form called
Sarsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar. Pre-
pared only by c. I. Hood Co., Lowell. Mass.
not by or under any law of the
realm and he appointed the
Judges who held the Oyer and
Terminer and Jail delivery. These
Judges were sent to hear and con-
demn, and generally did so. A
few examples of such writs extract
ed from IA History of the Crimi'
nal law OF England by Sir Fitz
James Stephen, Vol. l, page Io7,
will show what these courts were.
The first express mention of
them is in Statute I3 Edward l,
Chap. 20, CA. D. 1889, which
statute is in these words "a writ
of trespass, to hear and determine,
from henceforth shall not be grant
ed before any justices except justic-
es of either bench and justices in
eyre, unless it be for heinous
trespass where it is necessary to
provide speedy remedy, and our
Lord the King of his special grace
hath thought it good to be grant
ed" This of course implies that
the practice had previously been
different. The exception made in
the Statute left in existence, if it
did not introduce great abuses.
This appears from a petition in the
Parliament Rolls of 13I5-thirty
years after the statute.
The petition says: Great evils
and expressions against law are done
to many people by granting COM
missions of Oyer and Terminer,
more lightly or commonly than is
proper, against the Common law,
for when great lord or powerful
man wishes to injure another, he
falsely accuses him of a trespass,
or maintains some one else on
whom he"Qis enemy" has tres
passed, and purchases commissions
of Oyer and Terminer to people
favourable to himself and hostile
to the other side, who will be
ready to do whatever he pleases,
and will fix a day of which the
other side will either receive no
notice from the Sheriff and his
bailiffs (who are procured to take
parhin the fraud, or else such short
notice that he cannot attend; and
so he is previously amersed, name
ly, lbs. 20, or 20 mares, or lbs. 10,
at the will of the Plaintiff: and
then he has another day appointed
him in some upland, inconvenient
village in which his adversary is
so powerful that the defendant
dares not go there for danger of
his life. and can have no counsel
for fear of the same power And
thus he is fined three or four times
the value of his chattels, that is to
say, a common man, 26 lbs for a
day, or 100 mares or 40 pounds,
more or less according as the plain
tiff is urgent" "And if the de-
fendant keeps his day. he will
either receive bodily harm, or he
will have to agree to do more than
is in his power, or a jury from dis
tant parts will be procured which
knows nothing of the trespass, by
which the defendant will be con-
victed of the trespass, though he
may not be guilty, and the dam
age taxed at the will of his adver-
sary, that is to say for a trespass
for which 20 pence would be
enough, at 200 lbs, 400 lbs, some
times 1000 mares, and il the party
convicted is caught, he will be i'm
prisoned, and remain there until he
has paid every penny, or until he
agrees to sell his land; or until his
friends pay, if he is ever to get out.
And if he cannot be taken he will
be put in exigent and exiled for
ever."(by being outlawed."
And this from petition to Par
lament to have the Writs and Com
missions abolished.
No wonder that in the Pennsyl-
vania Constitution Of 1891, the
Declaration of Rights provided,