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Amende honorable was
originally a mode of
punishment in
France which required the offender,
barefoot and
stripped to his shirt, and led into a
church or...
- to
court to hear
their sentence. All
sentences more
severe than an
amende honorable could be
appealed to the
Sovereign Council of New
France before seven...
- hold
communication with the Duke of
Portland until he has made that
amende honorable to those...whose
weight and
consideration in
Ireland he has made subservient...
- and on the way to the
gallows were
stopped at
churches to make an
amende honorable, a
ceremonial plea for forgiveness. The
executions themselves were...
- but failed. He
managed to
escape on 3
February to Alençon, and made
amende honorable on 12 March.
Royal troops placed around Évreux
prevented him from joining...
- which, we have
condemned and do
condemn the said
Grandier to make
amende honorable, his head bare, a rope
round his neck,
holding in his hand a burning...
-
complaining about Edgeworth's
depiction of
Jewish characters. As an
amende honorable, she
wrote Harrington (1817), a
fictitious autobiography of a young...
- (mens rea) to be
charged with an § infraction. alinéa
paragraph amende fine
amende honorable public confession,
apology ancien droit pre-revolutionary law;...
- they
stopped at
Notre Dame so that the
Marquise could perform the
amende honorable inside the
packed Cathedral. When they
finally reached the
Place de...
- the name of
their pretended divine right, and thus made an
implicit amende honorable to what the
Church had
taught concerning the origin, the limits, and...
