 | Law - 1904 - 980 pages
...1901, p. 502], providing that a party seeking the benefit of a 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, includes any obligation fairly and properly inferable from the Constitution of the United States or... | |
 | Christopher Stuart Patterson - Constitutional law - 1904 - 408 pages
...supervisory jurisdiction which may be invoked by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, whenever a person 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 a judge H 2 Dall. 419. " Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat.... | |
 | Sir John Quick, Littleton Ernest Groom - Civil procedure - 1904 - 572 pages
...colour of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some Court thereof or for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or an order process or decree of a court or judge thereof, or in violation of the Constitution or a... | |
 | John Schreiner Reynolds - Reconstruction - 1905 - 530 pages
...for the Federal court, under a Federal statute which extended the privileges of the writ to persons "in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States." On behalf of the prisoners it was contended that a "Federal question" arose out of the fact that the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1102 pages
...into the cause of the imprisonment of the petitioner, and it', upon such inquiry, ho is found to be "in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States," he is entitled to bo discharged, no matter from whom or under what authority the process under which... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1144 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... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1144 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... | |
 | Walter Malins Rose - Bankruptcy - 1907 - 1018 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... | |
 | Chrisenberry Lee Bates - Circuit courts - 1908 - 644 pages
...trial before some court thereof; (2) to cases of persons alleged to be restrained of their liberty for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or an order, process, or decree of a court thereof; (3) to cases of persons alleged to be restrained... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - Executive power - 1908 - 372 pages
...seizing an illicit distillery.2 And an officer or other person held in custody under state process for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States may be released by habeas corpus from a federal court. The jurisdiction in such cases is exercised... | |
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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... 
