| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1242 pages
...States to issue writs of habeas corpus of prisoners In jail has been extended to the case of any person In custody for an act done or omitted In pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order or process of a court or judge thereof, or in custody In violation of the constitution... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1884 - 724 pages
...color of the authority of the United 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, or of an order, process or decree of a court or judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 880 pages
...considered as being " in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States," or as being " in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States." The federal courts, upon one or the other of those theories, have asserted their jurisdiction under... | |
| Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof, or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of the law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or itjn... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Judgments - 1886 - 794 pages
...and judges have the power to issue writs of habeas corpus;1 and the writ may extend to a prisoner who is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the... | |
| Francis Wharton - Government publications - 1886 - 876 pages
...color of the authority of the United 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, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
| Law - 1886 - 646 pages
...States. Owing to the nullification proceedings of 1833, the writ was allowed to any person imprisoned for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States or of an order of a US court or of a judge thereof. The Canadian troubles caused the act of 1842 to... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 788 pages
...color of the authority of the United 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 or treaty of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof ; or... | |
| Dugald J. Bannatyne - New York (State) - 1887 - 652 pages
...colour of the authority of the United 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, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof ; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
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