The American Law Journal, Volume 4W. P. Farrand and Company, 1813 |
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... president , Mr. Pendleton , it appears that other extraneous evidence was offered and rejected by the Court , on the trial of that cause . " The three points of testimony rejected , are there stated , and the judge proceeds " all which ...
... president , Mr. Pendleton , it appears that other extraneous evidence was offered and rejected by the Court , on the trial of that cause . " The three points of testimony rejected , are there stated , and the judge proceeds " all which ...
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... President of the United States made a communication to the Congress , inclosing a letter from Mr. Barlow the American minister at Paris , to Mr. Monroe , and another from the duke of Bassano to Mr. Barlow , which was ac- companied by an ...
... President of the United States made a communication to the Congress , inclosing a letter from Mr. Barlow the American minister at Paris , to Mr. Monroe , and another from the duke of Bassano to Mr. Barlow , which was ac- companied by an ...
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... president , and four of the seniour judges among those who reside in the department . The procu- reur general is represented by a substitute , and the clerk of the tribunal , before which the antecedent depositions have been ta- ken ...
... president , and four of the seniour judges among those who reside in the department . The procu- reur general is represented by a substitute , and the clerk of the tribunal , before which the antecedent depositions have been ta- ken ...
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... president shall ask him his name , his christian names , his age , his profession , his resi- dence , and the place of his birth . " The president shall inform the counsel for the accused , that he can say nothing against his conscience ...
... president shall ask him his name , his christian names , his age , his profession , his resi- dence , and the place of his birth . " The president shall inform the counsel for the accused , that he can say nothing against his conscience ...
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John Elihu Hall. " The president shall order the witnesses to withdraw into the apartment destined for them ; which they shall quit only when called to deliver their testimony . The president shall take pre- cautions , if necessary , to ...
John Elihu Hall. " The president shall order the witnesses to withdraw into the apartment destined for them ; which they shall quit only when called to deliver their testimony . The president shall take pre- cautions , if necessary , to ...
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Page 52 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 405 - 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 361 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union.
Page 235 - It seems, then, to the court, to be a principle of public law, that national ships of war, entering the port of a friendly power, open for their reception, are to be considered as exempted by the consent of that power from its jurisdiction.
Page 267 - I trust that it has not escaped my anxious recollection for one moment, what it is that the duty of my station calls for from me, namely, to consider myself as stationed here, not to deliver occasional and shifting opinions to serve present purposes of particular national interest, but to administer with indifference that justice which the law of nations holds out, without distinction, to independent States, some happening to be neutral and some to be belligerent.
Page 233 - If there be no prohibition the ports of a friendly nation are considered as open to the public ships of all powers with whom it is at peace, and they are supposed to enter such ports and to remain in them, while allowed to remain, under the protection of the government of the place.
Page 232 - This perfect equality and absolute independence of sovereigns, and this common interest impelling them to mutual intercourse, and an interchange of good offices with each other, have given rise to a class of cases in which every sovereign is understood to waive the exercise of a part of that complete exclusive territorial jurisdiction, which has been stated to be the attribute of every nation.
Page 234 - When private individuals of one nation spread themselves through another, as business or caprice may direct, mingling indiscriminately with the inhabitants of that other, or when merchant vessels enter for the purposes of trade, it would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the Government to degradation, if such individuals or merchants did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the...
Page 373 - And indeed it is as important to regulate, in a republick, in what manner, by whom, to whom, and concerning what, suffrages are to be given, as it is in a monarchy, to know who is the prince, and after what manner he ought to govern.
Page 232 - In such case, without any express declaration waiving jurisdiction over the army to which this right of passage has been granted, the sovereign who should attempt to exercise it would certainly be considered as violating his faith. By exercising it, the purpose for which the free passage was granted would be defeated, and a portion of the military force of a foreign independent nation would be diverted from those national objects and duties to which it was applicable, and would be withdrawn from...