Without Benefit of Clergy information

Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding and Boris Karloff...

In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin: privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen accused of a crime could claim...

person shall happen to be killed or destroyed", was guilty of a felony without benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death. Indictments for homicide caused...

District" "Without Benefit of Clergy" "At the End of the Passage" "The Mutiny of the Mavericks" "The Mark of the Beast" "The Recrudescence of Imray" (later...

extracted by torture, the sentence was thus imposed by attainder and without benefit of clergy. His execution took place on April 15, 1532, at Smithfield. A...

Reynard, a painter and teacher of Gurdjieff Movements, and Frank R. Sinclair, author of Without Benefit of Clergy and Of the Life Aligned, until Reynard's...

notorious use of the act was the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 in Manchester. The act also made it a felony punishable by death without benefit of clergy for "any...

The Benefit of Clergy Act 1575 (18 Eliz. 1. c. 7), long title An Act to take away clergy from the offenders in rape and burglary, and an order for the...

Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death. Leon Radzinowicz listed 49 pages of "Capital...

poisoning of the said two persons, shall stand, and be attainted of high treason, and shall be therefore boiled to death without benefit of clergy. And that...

1916 when she was 15 years old. Minter and Kirkwood "married" without benefit of clergy in the countryside near Santa Barbara. The relationship ended...

film serial, The Hope Diamond Mystery (1920). He was Indian in Without Benefit of Clergy (1921) and an Arab in Cheated Hearts (1921) and villainous in...

person shall happen to be killed or destroyed", was guilty of a felony without benefit of clergy, and was to be put to death. On Elizabeth's death in 1603...

several high-profile films such as Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and The Mummy (1932), Karloff spent the remainder of the 1930s working at an incredible pace...

guilty of felony, and was to suffer death without benefit of clergy. This death penalty was reduced to transportation for life by the Punishment of Offences...

(1921) as Anthony Blake Love's Penalty (1921) as Steven Saunders Without Benefit of Clergy (1921) Wife Against Wife (1921) as Stannard Dole The First Woman...

declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death". Blackstone frequently resorted to...

Fanny Clark's brother Percy Faulkner in a private ceremony without benefit of clergy. He was 52. The match had been strongly promoted by her father, grandmother...

with benefit of clergy; wilful fire raising in Scots law.) and setting fire to mills and coal mines were capital statutory offences without benefit of clergy...

Faire died of cancer on June 30, 1980, in Laguna Beach, California, aged 76. Runnin' Straight (1920) Masked (1920) Without Benefit of Clergy (1921) Fightin'...

Tappitt agreed, and "Captain Clegg" was hanged and later "buried without benefit of clergy at a cross-roads hard by the Kent Ditch". Many years later, Captain...

Banishment Act of 1778 named Byles as a person who was forbidden from returning to Massachusetts, “to suffer death without benefit of clergy if he should...

judgment, and that the Bible is the Word of God...relapse is to be punished as felony with death without benefit of clergy". Opposition from Independents and...

penalty without benefit of clergy or sanctuary. If any person was to prevent the use of any royal castle or ordnance by the crown, destroy any of the Queen's...