"Finable" Quotes from Famous Books
... your Lordships that the highest magistrate is subject to the law; that there is a case in which he is finable; that they have established rules of evidence and of pleading, and, in short, all the rules which have been formed in other countries to prevent this very arbitrary power. Notwithstanding all this, the prisoner at the bar, and his counsel, have dared to assert, in this sacred temple of ... — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |