That any order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal, pending, or to be commenced, for any search, seizure,... Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th ... - Page 514by United States. Congress. House - 1863Full view - About this book
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 886 pages
...That any order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts...made by special plea or under the general issue. SEC. 6. A nd beit further enacted, That if any suitor prosecution, civil or criminal, has been or shall... | |
| Electronic journals - 1872 - 854 pages
...during the existence of the rebellion, a defence only to an action or prosecution, civil or criminal, " for any search, seizure, arrest, or imprisonment made,...such order, or under color of any law of Congress." The nature of the action, for the purposes of the demurrer to this plea, can be judged of only by the... | |
| Amasa Junius Parker - Criminal law - 1872 - 720 pages
...present rebellion, shall be a defense in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal, for any search, seizure, arrest or imprisonment made,...omitted to be done, under and by virtue of such order, &c., and that such defense may be made by special plea or under the general issue ; and section five... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 pages
...that "any order of the President or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts...such order, or under color of any law of Congress." See this act considered in McCall v. McDowell, 1 Abb. USR 212. Except in Merryman's Case, the question... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 780 pages
...that any order of the president, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion shall be a defence in all courts...civil or criminal, pending or to be commenced, for any grant, seizure, arrest or imprisonment, made, done or committed, or acts omitted to be done under and... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...that any order of the president or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in all courts,...such order, or under color of any law of Congress,"- was held to be unconstitutional. The same decision was made in Johnson v, Jones, 44 111. 142. It was... | |
| John A. Marshall - History - 1881 - 836 pages
...authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defence in a'l courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal,...made by special plea, or under the general issue. $ ^ I ... | |
| Edward McPherson - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...That auy order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall -be a defence in all courts...made by special plea, or under the general issue. * < Suits begun in State courts may be transferred to United States Courts under circumstances described.... | |
| David Dudley Field - Law - 1884 - 604 pages
...under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the present rebellion, shall be a defense in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil...omitted to be done, under and by virtue of such order," a law which has scarce a parallel in history, save tbat of Denmark two centuries ago, which made a... | |
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