The American Jurist and Law Magazine, 4. köideFreeman & Bolles, 1830 |
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... RULES OF EVIDENCE • Of Incompetency of Witnesses on account of Religious Opinion . 233 262 282 286 V. CONSTITUTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 293 Opinion of Chief Justice Jay , and some of the Justices ( being a minority ) ...
... RULES OF EVIDENCE • Of Incompetency of Witnesses on account of Religious Opinion . 233 262 282 286 V. CONSTITUTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 293 Opinion of Chief Justice Jay , and some of the Justices ( being a minority ) ...
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... rules are laid down to govern them in the discharge of it , but they were left to their own discretion . ' ( a ) It is undoubtedly necessary to intrust to judges a discretion to proportion the gradations of a certain sort of punishment ...
... rules are laid down to govern them in the discharge of it , but they were left to their own discretion . ' ( a ) It is undoubtedly necessary to intrust to judges a discretion to proportion the gradations of a certain sort of punishment ...
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... rule to punish this offence with very great severity , and he accordingly to the great astonishment of the unhappy man , sentenced him to be transported . While one was taking his departure for Botany Bay , the term of the other's ...
... rule to punish this offence with very great severity , and he accordingly to the great astonishment of the unhappy man , sentenced him to be transported . While one was taking his departure for Botany Bay , the term of the other's ...
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... rule on this point was adopted in practice in New York , it was not approved in princi- ple . The ancient rule in England , that a witness whose name was forged , was incompetent to prove the forgery on an indict- ment , because he was ...
... rule on this point was adopted in practice in New York , it was not approved in princi- ple . The ancient rule in England , that a witness whose name was forged , was incompetent to prove the forgery on an indict- ment , because he was ...
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... rule has ceased by a sounder definition of the question of interest , and as it is now applied to other criminal cases , it would seem to be fit and proper , that the rule itself should no longer be applied to the case of forgery . ' In ...
... rule has ceased by a sounder definition of the question of interest , and as it is now applied to other criminal cases , it would seem to be fit and proper , that the rule itself should no longer be applied to the case of forgery . ' In ...
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Page 199 - God wills us free ; — man wills us slaves. I will as God wills ; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK A native of Africa who died March, 1773, aged about sixty years.
Page 86 - States, by the appointment of an impartial tribunal, to decide disputes between the state and federal judiciary, have had the same under their consideration, and are of opinion, that a tribunal is already provided, by the constitution of the United States...
Page 315 - The people shall have the right freely to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives, and to petition the legislature for redress of grievances.
Page 7 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Page 74 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 84 - The Judicial power of the United States extends to all cases in law and equity, arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States...
Page 152 - In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has heretofore been otherways used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.
Page 12 - ... imprisonment. The news of this sentence having reached the accomplice in his retreat, he immediately returned, and surrendered himself to take his trial at the next assizes. The next assizes came ; but, unfortunately for the prisoner, it was a different judge who presided ; and still more unfortunately, Mr. Justice Gould, who happened to be the judge, though...
Page 83 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Page 86 - State and federal judiciary, have had the same under their consideration, and are of opinion that a tribunal is already provided by the constitution of the United States, to wit : The Supreme Court, more eminently qualified, from their habits and duties, from the mode of their selection, and from the tenure of their offices, to decide the disputes aforesaid in an enlightened and impartial manner, than any other tribunal which could be created.