A Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and Others, Before Washington & Peters in the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the District of Pennsylvania in the Third Circuit, on an Indictment for Obstructing, Resisting, and Opposing the Execution of the Writ of Arrest, Issued Out of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the Case of Gideon Olmstead and Others Against the Surviving Executrices of David Rittenhouse, DeceasedP. Byrne, 1809 - 222 Seiten |
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... the hour the Court met , but conceiving that the trial might pro- ceed in his absence he had not done so before ; but find- ing a difficulty was likely to arise he had sent IN THE Preliminary matter before the jury were impannelled, page.
... the hour the Court met , but conceiving that the trial might pro- ceed in his absence he had not done so before ; but find- ing a difficulty was likely to arise he had sent IN THE Preliminary matter before the jury were impannelled, page.
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... matters of war and peace . By a direct investment of power , congress can alone declare war ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; raise and support armies ; provide and maintain a navy ; make rules for the regulation of the land and ...
... matters of war and peace . By a direct investment of power , congress can alone declare war ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; raise and support armies ; provide and maintain a navy ; make rules for the regulation of the land and ...
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... matters of judicial cogni- zance . By a direct investment , the judicial power of the United States embraces ( with various other objects ) all cases in law and equity , arising under the constitution , laws , and treaties ( other than ...
... matters of judicial cogni- zance . By a direct investment , the judicial power of the United States embraces ( with various other objects ) all cases in law and equity , arising under the constitution , laws , and treaties ( other than ...
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... matter in a bill of exceptions . The jury then proceeds to try the cause , according to the judgment of the inferior court ; and on appeal , the superior court determines upon the judgment of the inferior court . They do not touch the ...
... matter in a bill of exceptions . The jury then proceeds to try the cause , according to the judgment of the inferior court ; and on appeal , the superior court determines upon the judgment of the inferior court . They do not touch the ...
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... matter of fact , and make an entirely opposite decision , in law and in fact . This appears to me , to be a monstrous departure from every principle of law and justice . * It is not therefore a matter of wonder , that the judge of the ...
... matter of fact , and make an entirely opposite decision , in law and in fact . This appears to me , to be a monstrous departure from every principle of law and justice . * It is not therefore a matter of wonder , that the judge of the ...
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Seite 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Seite 124 - ... whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Seite 135 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Seite 23 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Seite 54 - States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Seite 77 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Seite 215 - if the legislatures of the several States may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery.
Seite 23 - It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particular interests.
Seite 219 - Since, then, the state of Pennsylvania had neither possession of, nor right to, the property on which the sentence of the district court was pronounced, and since the suit was neither commenced nor prosecuted against that state, there remains no pretext for the allegation that the case is within that amendment of the constitution which has been cited ; and consequently, the state of Pennsylvania can possess no constitutional right to resist the legal process which may be directed in this cause.
Seite 138 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective, states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...