Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
make such summary proceeding as justices of the peace in many cases may
do; yet the party is not without remedy for he may have a Certiorari to
remove the record of conviction, and then it may be examined and
reviewed, to see whether it be pursuant to their authority; for in every
case where a new jurisdiction is set up for a special purpose this court
by virtue of its original power may award a Mandamus to make them put
their authority in execution, and a Certiorari to look into their
proceeding whether it be conformable to their authority or not. Thus a
Certiorari lies to remove an indictment for felony before the justices
of the peace (bro. Eliz. 489. Long’s case) to remove orders before
commissioners of sewers, or by justices of the peace who have authority
to make conviction of a force in their presence, or for deer-stealing,
but although no Certiorari did lie (in the present case) it is not
consequential that the cause of their commitment is traversable; for if
the parliament intrusts them with a power so great that no act of theirs
shall be reversed or reviewed, there is the less reason that their
proceeding should be examined or traversed in an action; a jury is not
finable for giving a verdict against evidence; and though there are many
cases where jurymen have been fined (1) yet Bushel’s case, in which all
the others are cited, is sufficient to controul all the rest. Vauq. 135
(a) and if a juror shall not be fined or imprisoned or otherwise
punished for refusing to find a man guilty upon apparent and plain
evidence, much less shall a judge be liable to censure. In the case (b)
of Hammond and Powell, P. 29 Car. 2 an action for false-imprisonment was
brought after the resolution in Bushel’s case for his imprisonment (for
Hammond was one of the same jury with Bushel and fined 40l. and
imprisoned for it at the same time,) and notwithstanding that the fine
and imprisonment were illegal yet it was adjudged that the action did
not lie for false-imprisonment against the judge or the officer; so a
fine imposed by a judge of a court is not traversable as an amercement
is. 7 H. 6. 13. a. As to the case between Terry and Huntington Hard. 480
which may be objected; that is good law; for there an action was brought
against the commissioners of excise, who had charged a man for the duty
upon strong waters, where the liquor made by him was low wine of the
first extraction, and the action well lay, for they had exceeded their
jurisdiction; for low wines of the first extraction were not chargeable
within the act of parliament; and if they had charged a duty upon a
liquor not chargeable with it, they were not to be excused for having
named it strong waters. If a justice of the peace commits a man for
being the Father of a bastard child no action lies against the justice
if the man was the father of a bastard otherwise if he had no bastard at
all. So the case between Nickols and Walker, Cro. Car. 394, (_a_) is
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