| 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... | |
| Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1880 - 844 pages
...shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for...in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States ; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign State, and domiciled... | |
| Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1880 - 362 pages
...shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for...in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States ; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign State, and domiciled... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...shall the writ extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States ; or is committed for...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 - 1892 - 1912 pages
...shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for...omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the constitution... | |
| 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1118 pages
...means that If he Is held In custody In violation of the Constitution or a law of the United 8tntes, or for an act done or omitted In pursuance of a law of the United States, he must be discharged." This expression, in view of the authorities heretofore referred to, should... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 2060 pages
...as those of prisoners in custody, by authority of a state, for an act done, or omitted to be done, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order or process of a court of the United States, or otherwise Involving the authority and operations of... | |
| William Edward Miller - Courts - 1881 - 728 pages
...shall, in no case, extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for...judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the Constitutkm or of a law or treaty of the United States; or, being a subject or citizen of a foreign... | |
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