The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1852 - United States |
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... capias against the body of the said James Thompson Callender , indicted for an offence not capi- tal , whereupon the said Callender was arrested and committed to close custody , contrary to law in that case made and provided . held at ...
... capias against the body of the said James Thompson Callender , indicted for an offence not capi- tal , whereupon the said Callender was arrested and committed to close custody , contrary to law in that case made and provided . held at ...
Page 137
... capias to issue. an object . These intentions , he is confident , were legal and laudable ; and if , in any part of his con- duct , be swerved from this line , it was an error of his judgment and not of his heart . And the said ...
... capias to issue. an object . These intentions , he is confident , were legal and laudable ; and if , in any part of his con- duct , be swerved from this line , it was an error of his judgment and not of his heart . And the said ...
Page 139
... capias to issue against Callender , decided correctly , as it certainly was his intention to do . But he claims no other merit than that of upright intention in this decision ; for when he made the decision , he was utterly ignorant ...
... capias to issue against Callender , decided correctly , as it certainly was his intention to do . But he claims no other merit than that of upright intention in this decision ; for when he made the decision , he was utterly ignorant ...
Page 161
... capias . But that other process must be of the nature of a summons , notifying the party to ap- pear at the next term ; and will any man pretend to say , that a capias taking him into close cus- tody and obliging him to appear , not at ...
... capias . But that other process must be of the nature of a summons , notifying the party to ap- pear at the next term ; and will any man pretend to say , that a capias taking him into close cus- tody and obliging him to appear , not at ...
Page 203
... capias was issued . Mr. Hay . I ought to premise , that this question relates to a branch of jurisprudence which I have not much attended to , although sometime since I acted as prosecutor for the State for one of its counties . I have ...
... capias was issued . Mr. Hay . I ought to premise , that this question relates to a branch of jurisprudence which I have not much attended to , although sometime since I acted as prosecutor for the State for one of its counties . I have ...
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Page 587 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 505 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Page 99 - An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,
Page 113 - Now reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter's state, humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts ; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence, and to prepare them in time for that state of society which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals.
Page 585 - That all the before-mentioned courts of the United States shall have power to issue writs of scire facias, habeas corpus, and all other writs, not specially provided for by statute, which may be necessary for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, and agreeable to the principles and usages of law.
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Page 153 - ... aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Page 689 - Governor on the address of two-thirds of each House of the Legislature, for wilful neglect of duty, incompetency, habitual drunkenness, oppression in office, or other reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment...
Page 223 - Levying war against the United States, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort, is treason.
Page 505 - ... arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States or territorial court as by this act has cognizance of the offence.