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" A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. "
New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition - Page 543
by Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1892
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents ..., Volume 7, Part 2

United States. Congress. House - 956 pages
...rules prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...execution of the laws, which exempts the individual upon whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." The law...
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A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections, Volume 7

Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 720 pages
...repealed, by omitting from the subsequent annual land-tax acts the clause imposing it.] PARDON. ft A PARDON is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. 160 ; Bouv. LD ht Pardons are general, as when an act of amnesty is passed forgiving all persons...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 26

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 pages
...grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." "It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the individual for...
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Opinions of Attorneys General

1851 - 1014 pages
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 104

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1896 - 784 pages
...him, if a pardon is to be granted. As was said by Chief Justice Marshall in US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 160: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official, act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the individual for...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 88

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 pages
...pardoning power of the Governor. The act does not attempt to confer any power upon the board to pardon. "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150. Section 6 expressly declares that nothing in the act shall be construed to...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme ..., Volume 7; Volume 32

United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 536 pages
...proceeding from • the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the indiI vidual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a erimo he has committed. It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered...
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A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the ..., Volume 2

John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 pages
...impounded. PARDON, crim. law, pleading. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. SC Rep. 160. 2. Every pardon granted to the guilty is in derogation of the law ; if the pardon...
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A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity ..., Volume 2

Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 pages
...person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he hae committed. It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the...
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The Judge Advocate's Vade Mecum: Embracing a General View of Military Law ...

Charles Henry Lee - 1863 - 264 pages
...punishment destroyed or diminished." SEC. 218. A pardon may also be specially pleaded in bar 'of the trial. "A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, and exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime...
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