 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...into the canse of the imprisonment of the petitioner, and if, upon such inquiry, he is found to be " in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States," then he is in custody in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and he is entitled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...extended, first in 1833,* to prisoners confined under any authority, whether State or National, for any act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United * 4 Stat. at Large, 634. Opinion of the court. States, or of any order, process, or decree of any judge... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...nullification, which forms a clanse in the Revised Statutes in these words, after the words already qnoted, " or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance...States, or of an order, process or decree of a court or jndge thereof." " And, in more recent times," says Jndge B., "it has been extended to all persons in... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...Dorr, 3 How (U. S.) 103; 1 US Stat. at Large, 81. Persons imprisoned by authority of a state, for acts done or omitted, in pursuance of a law of the United States, may be discharged on a habeas corpus issued by a judge of the United States pourte. 4 US Stat. at Large,... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 816 pages
...Statutes, " the writ of habeas corpus shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless whero he is in custody * * * for an act done or omitted, in...order, process or decree of a court or judge thereof." Although the words used are those of exclusion, there is no doubt of the power of this court to issue... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...jurisdiction to release- him from his imprisonment. He must be in custody in the language of the statute for an act done or omitted, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and the question therefore presents... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...writ shall extend to no person in jail, with a series of exceptions, one of which is that the party "is in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or a treaty of the United States." This provision would seem to cover the case of a person extradited... | |
 | Rollin Augustus Ives - Military law - 1879 - 514 pages
...143. » § 751, Revised Statutes. 4 Ibid., § 752. authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody...in custody in violation of the constitution, or of law or treaty of the United States ; or etc., or unless it is necessary to bring a witness into court... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States ; or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody...order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; 8 or is in custody in violation of the Con1 Gold Washing, &c. Co. v. Keyes, 96 TJ. S. Rep. 199. 2 Where... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1910 pages
...except as it is extended by the act of 1867 (now section 7f>3, Kev. St.) to prisoners "in custody lor an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the...process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or in violation of the constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States," etc. An apparent, though... | |
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States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States... 
