 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...treating on the law of impeachment, speaks thus : " As to the trial itself, it must of course vary in external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from...and punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not formed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution, where itmightbeobstructedbytheinfluenceof... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...treat-ng on the law of impeachment, speaks thus ; " As to the trial itself, it must of course vary w external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from...rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes ami punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not formed to alter the law, but to carry it into more... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...ultra legem.— Seld. Jud. 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1838 - 456 pages
...secundum, non ultra legem. Seld. Jud. 168 — 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carrj it into more effectual execution against too powerful delinquents. The judgment, therefore, is... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 886 pages
...must of course vary in external ceremony, but ' differs not in essentials from criminal prosecu1 lions before inferior courts. The same rules of ' evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and 1 punishments prevail. For impeachments are not ' framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...external ceremony, but differs not in esí№als from criminal prosecutions before infe'noitonrts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, j pretal. For impeachments are not formed to alte the law. but to carry it into more effectual execution,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...to the trial itself, it must of course 'vary in external ceremony, but differs not in es' sentials from criminal prosecutions before infe'rior courts. The same rules of evidence, the 1 same legal notions of crimes and punishments, ' prevail. For impeachments are not formed to 'alter... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1853 - 476 pages
...ultra legem.— Seld. Jud. 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremonies, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against too powerful... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...ultra legem. — Seld. Jud. 168, 169, 170, 171. This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions...crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments were not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution against two powerful... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 756 pages
...down in 4 Black., 259, and in 2 Woodeson, СП. "As to the trial itself, it must of course vary in external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from...prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidehce, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail. For impeachments are not framed... | |
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This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevailed; for impeachments are not framed... 
