Almost everyone of these, being strongly attached to the laws and customs of the nation, hesitated, or refused to obey the orders conveyed to them, when those orders appeared illegal.

But still some of these governors and magistrates, considering themselves not only the officers of the prince, but the protectors of the people, and the defenders of the laws rather than of the faith, did not blindly conform to those harsh and illegal commands.

He knew that the structure of illegal power could only be raised on the ruins of public rights and national happiness; and the materials of desolation found sympathy in his congenial mind.

This remarkable proclamation of general feeling consisted chiefly in a powerful reprehension of the illegal establishment of the Inquisition in the Low Countries, and a solemn obligation on the members of the confederacy to unite in the common cause against this detested nuisance.

A new form of edict was now decided on by the stadtholderess and her council; and after various insidious and illegal but successful tricks, the consent of several of the provinces was obtained to the adoption of measures that, under a guise of comparative moderation, were little less abominable than those commanded by the king.

Having severely reprimanded the factious leaders, and pointed out the dangers of their illegal course, he returned to Brussels, leaving the factious city in a temporary tranquillity which his firmness and discretion could alone have obtained.

James I. and Charles I. both collected illegal taxes.

They probably knew that their proceedings were unconstitutional and illegal, but thought that their acts would be sanctioned by their patriotic intentions.

Before 1824 it was illegal for workmen to combine, even in the most peaceable manner, for the purpose of obtaining an increase of wages.

It was a movement nursed in discontent, and carried on with bitterness and illegal violence.

After the years of your imprisonment and painful anxiety had worn away, and the illegal measure of your arrest had been publicly acknowledged, we found you restored to your personal liberty, and again ardently engaged in the great cause of your country's freedom.

The idea is, that the Chamber of Deputies will meet, considering the dissolution to be illegal.

Suffice to say that after a summer replete with illegal beatings and jailings five men were killed in cold blood and forty wounded in a final desperate effort to drive the union out of the city of Everett, Washington.

But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

But a contract the carrying out of which is recognized as subversive of justice, morality, or the general welfare, is illegal, and therefore void.

An illegal consideration is, however, not a consideration; nor is the performance of a moral duty, nor the doing of what would be a legal duty without the promise in question.

Apart, however, from such illegal means of making money, there was beyond doubt in the Rome of the last century B.C.

He has even threatened to make lynching illegal.

On the contrary, doing this would make one feel like an encroacher or illegal alien overstaying his welcome at a place not wanted.

Recently, a correspondent persistently highlighted the illegal felling of trees in the taluka, inviting the wrath of timber smugglers.

Ignoring numerous threats to his life, his efforts eventually paid off when arrests were effected, lethargic local authorities transferred and brakes applied on the illegal activities in the area.

They want to make it illegal to manufacture this Herakleophorbiaor at any rate to circulate the knowledge of it.

Dorothy Ruth Kahn (A); 8Nov63; R325860. KALES, ALBERT M. Cases on the law of property, future interests and illegal conditions and restraints.

It is enough that the land-shark forgot his illegal traffic in claims; the money-lender ceased for one day to talk of mortgages and per cent and foreclosure; the fat gentleman left his corner-lots.

Happy are the worshippers of art and poetry, those who have devoted their lives to this sacred cult, if ambition and intriguewith their attendant train of flattery, party rings, and illegal speculationdo not invade the stage whence the palms and the crowns are awarded!