 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 864 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1889 - 878 pages
...which is— " The writ of habtas corpus shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where be 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1172 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or iscommitted 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 - 1903 - 658 pages
...meaning of this phrase [that a party seeking the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus must show that he .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 - 1889 - 952 pages
...limitations, among which is "that the writ shall not extend to a prisoner in jail, . . . unless he 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 thereof, or in custody in violation of the Constitution,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 800 pages
...pursuance thereof; for any question arising under valid laws arises under the Constitution. A prisoner 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 the court or judge thereof, is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | Alexander E. Wagstaff - California - 1892 - 562 pages
...into the cause 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... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1030 pages
...courts and judges may issue writs of habeat eorput for the release of prisoners in custody for acts done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of the court or judge thereof, or in custody in violation of the... | |
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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... 
