Word: guilt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife, and Mrs. Cregan absolves her son of even intentional guilt by confessing that she alone procured the glove that was to convey to Donny Mann the order to execute his wicked design...
...header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife, and Mrs. Cregan absolves her son of even intentional guilt by confessing that she alone procured the glove that was to convey to Donny Mann the order to execute his wicked design...
...gate, which bears the onmious inscription, "Leave hope, ye who enter here," and came into a scene of suffering and lamentation. Passing through the first great crowd of moaning wretches, and crossing the Charon, they come among the souls that are suffering penance for original sin, and no other guilt. Thence they advance into a second circle, at the entrance to which stands Minos, who assigns to the spirits their proper places in Hell. Leaving Minos they continue along a rocky cliff, past which rushes the tempest that carries along in its mad career the sinners that have subjected reason...
...Hale first gave numerous examples of the respective powers of the ecclesiastic and civil courts in deciding upon the guilt of accused members of religious bodies. He said that civil authority had enacted special commandments in relation to the holding of property for the support of some divine creed and that in all cases where appeal was made to the civil court, the civil court never held the previous decisions of the ecclesiastical court to be valid, as these bodies had organized themselves, and whatever power they exercised came only from themselves and could have no legal force...
...irrational, for (a) While it is based on the injustice of convicting a man if even one juror has a reasonable doubt of his guilt; yet if eleven believe him innocent and one does not, he cannot be acquitted. (b) It presupposes that twelve men will be likely really to agree on a doubtful question...