A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1658.
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Law -- Terminology.
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"A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50063.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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MUTE.
A Prisoner may stand Mute two manner of waies;
1. When he stands mute without speaking of any thing; and then it shall be enquired, whether he stood mute of malice, or by the Act of God, and if it be found that it was by the Act of God, then the Judge of the Court ex officio, ought to
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inquire whether he be the same person, and of all other Pleas which he might have pleaded, if he had not stood mute.
2. When he pleads not guilty, or doth not di∣rectly answer, or will not put himself upon the enquest, to be tryed by God and the Countrey. Cook's 2 part of Instit. c. 12.
If a man stand mute in an Indictment he shall be put to his penance, if in an appeal he shall be hanged, if in a case of Treason, he shall be drawn and hang'd.
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