_Judgment._--Judgments in Parliament, for death, have been strictly guided _per legem terræ_, which they cannot alter; and not at all according to their discretion. They can neither admit any part of the legal judgment, nor add to it. Their sentence must be _secundum, non ultra legem_.--_Seld. Jud._ 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against two powerful delinquents. The judgment, therefore, is to be such as is warranted by legal principles or precedents.--6 _Stra. Tr._ 14; 2 _Wood._ 611. The Chancellor gives judgments in misdemeanors; the Lord High Steward, formerly, in cases of life and death.--_Seld. Jud._ 180. But now the Steward is deemed not necessary.--_Fost._ 144; 1 _Woodd._ 613. In misdemeanors, the greatest corporal punishment hath been imprisonment.--_Seld. Jud._ 184. The King's assent is necessary in capital judgments, (but 2 _Woodd._ 614. contra.) but not in misdemeanors.--_Seld. Jud._ 136. _Continuance._--An impeachment is not discontinued by the dissolution of Parliament; but may be resumed by the new Parliament.--_T. Ray._ 383; 5 _Com. jour._ 23 Dec. 1790; _Lord's jour._ May 16, 1791; 2 _Wood._ 618. FOOTNOTES: [1] [JUDGE WYTHE.] PHILADELPHIA, February 28, 1800.