Trial of Thomas Sims, on an Issue of Personal Liberty, on the Claim of James Potter, of Georgia, Against Him, as an Alleged Fugitive from Service: Arguments of Robert Rantoul, Jr., and Charles G. Loring, with the Decision of George T. Curtis, Boston, April 7-11, 1851Wm. S. Damrell & Company, 1851 - 47 páginas |
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Página 18 - ... all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this commonwealth and for the government and ordering thereof and of the subjects of the same...
Página 11 - E. 3. cap. 8 where the words, by the Law of the Land, are rendered, without due process of Law, for there it is said, though it be contained in the Great Charter, that no man be taken, imprisoned, or put out of his free-hold without...
Página 5 - ... the trial of issues in fact in the circuit courts shall, in all suits, except those of equity, and of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, be by jury...
Página 27 - And upon the production by the said party of other and further evidence, if necessary, either oral or by affidavit, in addition to what is contained in the said record of the identity of the person escaping, he or she shall be delivered up to the claimant.
Página 5 - Constitution denominated, in the third article, 'law'; not merely suits which the common law recognized among its old and settled proceedings, but suits in which legal rights were to be ascertained and determined, in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered...
Página 18 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Página 15 - 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.
Página 16 - The next consideration is as to the courts in which the judicial power shall be vested. It is manifest that a Supreme Court must be established ; but whether it be equally obligatory to establish inferior courts, is a question of some difficulty. If Congress may lawfully omit to establish inferior courts, it might follow that, in some of the enumerated cases, the judicial power could nowhere exist.
Página 5 - It is well known that in civil causes, in Courts of Equity and Admiralty, Juries do not intervene, and that Courts of Equity use the trial by Jury only in extraordinary cases, to inform the conscience of the Court. When, therefore, we find that the amendment requires that the right of trial by Jury shall be preserved in suits at common law, the natural conclusion is, that this distinction was present to the minds of the framers of the amendment.
Página 21 - And be it further enacted, That when a person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the United States, has heretofore or shall hereafter escape into another State or Territory of the United States, the person or persons to whom such service or labor may be due, or his, her, or their agent or attorney...