The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801: 1782Clarence M. Busch, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1906 |
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Page 430 - If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any state,' shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 520 - ... within the age of twenty-one years, feme covert, non compos mentis, imprisoned, or beyond the seas...
Page 117 - March next, for the purpose of concerting and agreeing to such business as, in consequence of this Act, shall be proper to be laid before them at the commencement of the work they have undertaken, and shall have power to adjourn from time to time, as they shall see cause, to any other times or places, for the purpose of perfecting the same.
Page 234 - Minnesota; thence southward on said boundary to the Missouri river; thence down the main channel of said river to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Nebraska...
Page 432 - ... appear or other court having jurisdiction of the cause ; and if any other person or persons shall knowingly contrary to this act recommit or imprison or knowingly procure or cause to be recommitted or imprisoned for the same offence or pretended offence...
Page 579 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
Page 432 - ... that no person or persons, which shall be delivered or set at large upon any habeas corpus, shall at any time hereafter be again imprisoned or committed for the same offence by any person or persons whatsoever, other than by the legal order and process of such court wherein he or they shall be bound by recognizance to appear or other court having jurisdiction of the cause...
Page 273 - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the expiration of the aforesaid term of fourteen years in the cases herein before mentioned, the exclusive right of printing and disposing of any such book or pamphlet in this State, shall return to the author 10 thereof, if then living, his heirs and assigns, for the term of fourteen years more; and that all and every person or persons who shall reprint, publish, vend, distribute, or import within...
Page 428 - ... shall be residing, and if beyond the distance of twenty miles and not above one hundred miles then within the space of ten days, and if beyond the distance of one hundred miles then within the space of twenty days after such delivery aforesaid, and not longer.
Page 272 - ... frequently taken the Liberty of printing, reprinting and publishing, or causing to be printed, reprinted and published, Books and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors or Proprietors of such Books and Writings, to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families: For preventing therefore such Practices for the future, and for the Encouragement of learned Men to compose and write useful Books...