The Law Students' First Book, Being Chiefly an Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries; Incorporating the Alterations in the Law Down to the Present TimeR. Hastings, 1848 - 508 ページ |
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426 ページ - ... nor for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened...