 A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential ; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force...  Current Comment and Legal Miscellany - Page 121889Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 956 pages
...individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a erime he has committed. * * It is a deed, to the validity of which, delivery is essential;...delivery is not complete 'without acceptance. It may be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered, and we have discovered no power in a court to force... | |
 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1846 - 494 pages
...; and per Marshall, Chief Justice, in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, " A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may be rejected; and if rejected there is no power to force it on him." Ina more recent case — that of... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 720 pages
...felony is several in each offender, and cannot be joint. Dyer, 34, pi. 21 ; 2 Hawk. PC c. 37, § 24. #A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential, and the delivery is not complete without acceptance. United States v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150.& (G) In what... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...this respect from other facts: no legal principle known to the court will sustain such a distinction. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him. Ibid. 4. It may be supposed that no being condemned to death would reject a panba... | |
 | Charles Henry Lee - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 264 pages
...whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." * * * But, "a pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered. It may be supposed that no being condemned to death... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 832 pages
...delivery had been procured by letters forged by the friends of the consignee. The prisoner is remanded. 1. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. If rejected by the person to whom it is tendered there is no power in a court to force it on him, and... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 652 pages
...this respect from othor facts ? We know of no legal principle which will sustain such a distinction. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him. It may be supposed that no being condemned to death would reject a pardon ; but the... | |
 | Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati), William Disney - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 644 pages
...292, Pardon, E. It follows, then, to quote the opinion of Judge Marshall, already referred to, that " a pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it upon him." See also Kelyug, 45, Copeland's case; Foster, 40, Bateliffc's case, The effect... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 836 pages
...quote in that opinion also from common law writers on the subject of pardon and its effect, and say : A pardon is a deed to the validity of which delivery...rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him. — United State» vs. Wilson, 7 Pttert, pugc 161. " The point in that caso was the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 826 pages
...effect, and say : A pardon ¡sa deed to the validity of which delivery is essential, and delivery ¡8 not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected...rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force it on him. — United States vs. Wilton, 1 Peten, page 101. " The point in that ease was the... | |
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