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" 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 514
by United States. Congress. House - 1863
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...

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...
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The American Law Register, Volume 11; Volume 20

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...
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Reports of Decisions in Criminal Cases Made at Term at Chambers ..., Volume 5

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...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 2

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...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of ..., Volume 49

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...
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A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative ...

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...
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American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of ...

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 ...
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The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great ...

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....
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 110

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1884 - 828 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." 12 Stat. 756. It would be a strained construction to hold that, while § 4 expressly protected the...
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Speeches, Arguments, and Miscellaneous Papers of David Dudley Field, Volume 1

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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