A Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and Others, Before Washington & Peters in the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the District of Pennsylvania in the Third Circuit, on an Indictment for Obstructing, Resisting, and Opposing the Execution of the Writ of Arrest, Issued Out of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the Case of Gideon Olmstead and Others Against the Surviving Executrices of David Rittenhouse, Deceased |
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... Court of the United States , in and for the district of Penn- sylvania , to ... appeals , as stated in the proceedings of the said cause , with costs ... court at Philadelphia , this twenty - fourth day of March , A. D. 1809 ...
... Court of the United States , in and for the district of Penn- sylvania , to ... appeals , as stated in the proceedings of the said cause , with costs ... court at Philadelphia , this twenty - fourth day of March , A. D. 1809 ...
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... court of admiralty , " appeals were allowed from the said court in all cases unless from the determination or finding of the facts by a jury , which was under the provisions of that law , to be without re - examination or appeal ...
... court of admiralty , " appeals were allowed from the said court in all cases unless from the determination or finding of the facts by a jury , which was under the provisions of that law , to be without re - examination or appeal ...
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... appeal from the said court of admiralty of Pennsylvania , unto the court or committee of appeals , ap- pointed as aforesaid , under the authority of congress , not- withstanding the recommendation of congress aforesaid of the twenty ...
... appeal from the said court of admiralty of Pennsylvania , unto the court or committee of appeals , ap- pointed as aforesaid , under the authority of congress , not- withstanding the recommendation of congress aforesaid of the twenty ...
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... court of admiralty , to enable captain Houston , and the other libellants ... court to pay part of the proceeds of the said prize , to the amount of eleven ... appeals , was contrary to the provisions of the act of congress recom ...
... court of admiralty , to enable captain Houston , and the other libellants ... court to pay part of the proceeds of the said prize , to the amount of eleven ... appeals , was contrary to the provisions of the act of congress recom ...
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... court of common pleas of the county of Lancaster , was incompetent to carry into effect the decree - of the court of appeals , and that the judge of the court of ad- miralty aforesaid , George Ross , was not liable to an action in a ...
... court of common pleas of the county of Lancaster , was incompetent to carry into effect the decree - of the court of appeals , and that the judge of the court of ad- miralty aforesaid , George Ross , was not liable to an action in a ...
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Page 124 - ... whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 135 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 23 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Page 54 - States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 77 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 215 - if the legislatures of the several States may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery.
Page 23 - It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particular interests.
Page 219 - Since, then, the state of Pennsylvania had neither possession of, nor right to, the property on which the sentence of the district court was pronounced, and since the suit was neither commenced nor prosecuted against that state, there remains no pretext for the allegation that the case is within that amendment of the constitution which has been cited ; and consequently, the state of Pennsylvania can possess no constitutional right to resist the legal process which may be directed in this cause.
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