| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...true design of all punishments heing to refcrm, not to exterminate, mankind. XIX. Every subject hath a right to be secure from, all unreasonable searches...person,, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. Therefort:, all warrants to search suspected places, or arrest a person for examination or trial, in... | |
| 1814 - 466 pages
...effect, arc therefore unconstitutional and void, Resolved, That the people of this commonwealth, " have a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers, and all their possessions ;" that all laws rendering liable to seizure... | |
| United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...greatest securities to the rights of a free people, and ought to remain inviolate. That every freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers or his property ; and therefore, that all warrants to search suspected places, or seize any... | |
| Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...the greatest rattan? ftlae" securities of the life, liberty and property of the citizen. ARTICLE XIV. Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable...possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by seeurity from oath or affirmation... | |
| Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1822 - 1122 pages
...such an effect, are therefore, unconstitutional and void — That the people of this Commonwealth have a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of their property 5 that all laws, rendering liable to seizure the property of a citizen, at the direction... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...they happen, is one of the greatest securities of the life, liberty and property of the citizen. XIV. Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable...possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation ; and... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...reform, not to extirminate, mankind. 19. Every person hath a right to he secure from all unreasonahle searches and seizures of his person, .his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. Therefore, all warrants to search suspected places, or arrest a person for examination or trial, in... | |
| Isaac Goodwin - Forms (Law) - 1830 - 334 pages
...issuing warrants is strictly guarded in the constitution of this state. Every subject has a right to he secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures...possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation ; and... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...happen, is one of the greatest securities of the life, liberty, and property of the citizen. XIV.—EVERY subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable...possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation ; and... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...happen, is one of the greatest securities of the life, liberty, and property of the citizen. XIV. — EVERY subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable...possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation ; and... | |
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