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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... that by an act of congress for the erecting of tribunals , competent to determine the property of capture , during the late war between Great Britain and her then colonies , passed the twenty - fifth day ( 8 ) Special plea in bar,
... that by an act of congress for the erecting of tribunals , competent to determine the property of capture , during the late war between Great Britain and her then colonies , passed the twenty - fifth day ( 8 ) Special plea in bar,
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... tribunal , of the nation ) , pronounced in the case of Penhallow v . Doane , in which the great points of their own case were expressly decided : 1. That the congressional Court of Appeals had jurisdiction , both on the fact and the law ...
... tribunal , of the nation ) , pronounced in the case of Penhallow v . Doane , in which the great points of their own case were expressly decided : 1. That the congressional Court of Appeals had jurisdiction , both on the fact and the law ...
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... tribunal . Accordingly , in February Term 1808 , the libellants obtain ed a mandamus , directing the district judge to execute his decree , or to return a legal cause for not doing so . The opportunity was , chearfully , embraced , to ...
... tribunal . Accordingly , in February Term 1808 , the libellants obtain ed a mandamus , directing the district judge to execute his decree , or to return a legal cause for not doing so . The opportunity was , chearfully , embraced , to ...
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... tribunal of our country . In the performance of my dury , I shall be governed by prudence and discretion , and withal by that firmness which should at all times influence those who are intrusted officially with the execution of the laws ...
... tribunal of our country . In the performance of my dury , I shall be governed by prudence and discretion , and withal by that firmness which should at all times influence those who are intrusted officially with the execution of the laws ...
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... tribunal , that he should be governed by prudence and discretion , but with that firmness which it was his duty to manifest ; that it became the serious consideration of the military arrayed against him to consider how far they were ...
... tribunal , that he should be governed by prudence and discretion , but with that firmness which it was his duty to manifest ; that it became the serious consideration of the military arrayed against him to consider how far they were ...
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Page 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
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.
Page 138 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective, states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...