Reports of Select Cases Decided in the Courts of New York: Not Heretofore Reported, Or Reported Only PartiallyDiossy, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... the act to abolish imprisonment for debt , passed in 1831 . THE defendant was indicted for a misdemeanor . He had been sued in an action of trover before a justice of The People v . Michael Burke . the peace , 10 EDMONDS ' SELECT CASES .
... the act to abolish imprisonment for debt , passed in 1831 . THE defendant was indicted for a misdemeanor . He had been sued in an action of trover before a justice of The People v . Michael Burke . the peace , 10 EDMONDS ' SELECT CASES .
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... indict- ment , after the party has been arrested under such indictment , because there are no means of ascertaining on what the indictment is predicated . But where a person is committed on a coroner's inquest , or by the examin- ing ...
... indict- ment , after the party has been arrested under such indictment , because there are no means of ascertaining on what the indictment is predicated . But where a person is committed on a coroner's inquest , or by the examin- ing ...
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... indictment , or of violating my oath of office and the Constitution , which forbids excessive bail . Of course I incurred the hazard , but not without some reflections upon the character of legislation which could thus jeopard personal ...
... indictment , or of violating my oath of office and the Constitution , which forbids excessive bail . Of course I incurred the hazard , but not without some reflections upon the character of legislation which could thus jeopard personal ...
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... indictment , the court on habeas corpus would entertain the question of guilt or innocence , and on that question the authorities had been very uniform , that it would not , and for very plain and simple reasons , that as the testimony ...
... indictment , the court on habeas corpus would entertain the question of guilt or innocence , and on that question the authorities had been very uniform , that it would not , and for very plain and simple reasons , that as the testimony ...
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... indictment ; and his re- maining authority ( 11 Ad . & Ellis , 273 ) was upon the power conferred by an English statute , in respect to which the court in that case say : " If the warrant returned be good on the face of it , we can ...
... indictment ; and his re- maining authority ( 11 Ad . & Ellis , 273 ) was upon the power conferred by an English statute , in respect to which the court in that case say : " If the warrant returned be good on the face of it , we can ...
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Page 112 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 341 - When perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual : "3.
Page 109 - ... to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or...
Page 302 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without...
Page 112 - ... Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued...
Page 104 - No person offered as a witness shall be excluded by reason of his interest in the event of the action.
Page 112 - ... although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 343 - If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 292 - The killing of a human being, unless it is excusable or justifiable, is murder in the first degree, when committed : 1. From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another ; or 2.
Page 185 - ... undoubted authority to control all persons and things within, their own territorial limits. When, therefore, both parties to a suit in a foreign country, are...