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" That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. "
An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the ... - Page 460
by William Winterbotham - 1795 - 485 pages
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The Power of Congress Over the District of Columbia

Theodore Dwight Weld - 1838 - 66 pages
...respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law." Soon after the organization of the general government, Chief Justice Ellsworth,...
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The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775 ...

Massachusetts. Provincial Congress - 1838 - 866 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,...
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A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a ...

Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pages
...Colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially, the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law, (meaning the trial by jury.) (6.) That the Colonies are entitled to the benefit...
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The Political Text Book: Containing the Declaration of Independence, with ...

Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and, more especially, to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. "6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed...
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The American Politician: Containing the Declaration of the Independence, the ...

M. Sears - 1842 - 586 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of -England, and, more especially, to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. " 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed...
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The Governmental History of the United States of America: From the Earliest ...

Henry Sherman - 1843 - 302 pages
...cojpnies are entitled to the Common law of England, and more especially, to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law. . VI. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English Statutes as...
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The American Politican: Containing the Declaration of Independence, the ...

M. Sears - 1844 - 596 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and, more especially, to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. " 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed...
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The Young American: Or, Book of Government and Law; Showing Their History ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,...
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American Criminal Trials, Volume 2

Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - 410 pages
...colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law." At the same time they enumerated the several acts of the British parliament to...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 2

James Kent - 1848 - 1046 pages
...colonies were entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law ; that they were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed...
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