The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political ScienceJohn Martin Vincent Johns Hopkins University Press, 1903 - History |
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Page 269 - Assembly, signed by the President of the Council, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Page 79 - ... jurisdiction, power or authority by English bill, petition, articles, libel, or any other arbitrary way whatsoever, to examine or draw into question, determine or dispose of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels of any the subjects of this kingdom, but that the same ought to be tried and determined in the ordinary Courts of Justice and by the ordinary course of the law.
Page 67 - Annapolis, of his famous pamphlet, The right of the Inhabitants of Maryland to the Benefit of the English Laws.
Page 74 - ... unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him by an evident and clear appointment an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty.
Page 11 - Commissioners that in their voyage to Mary Land they be very careful to preserve unity and peace amongst all the passengers on Shipboard, and that they suffer no scandal nor offence to be given to any of the Protestants, whereby any just complaint may hereafter be made, by them, in Virginia or in England...
Page 8 - ... as are enforced by penalties), the mode of maintenance for the established clergy, the jurisdiction of spiritual courts, and a multitude of other provisions, are neither necessary nor convenient for them, and therefore are not in force. What shall be admitted and what rejected, at what...
Page 85 - Heredita" ments whatsoever, within our Kingdoms of England, and other " our Dominions, may inherit, or otherwise purchase, receive, take, " have, hold, buy, possess; and them may occupy and enjoy, give, " sell, alien, and bequeath: As likewise, All Liberties, Franchises, " and Privileges, of this our Kingdom of England, freely, quietly,
Page 70 - That the writ of habeas corpus may not be denied, but ought to be granted to every man that is committed or detained in prison, or otherwise restrained, though it be by the command of the king, the privy council, or any other, he praying the same.
Page 350 - A relation of the successful beginnings of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Mary-land, being an extract of certaine letter's written from thence by some of the Adventurers to their friends in England. [London] Anno Dom. 1634,
Page 79 - Habeas Corpus, and sometimes more, and by other shifts to avoid their yielding obedience to such writs, contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land, whereby many of the king's subjects have been and hereafter may be long detained in prison, in such cases where by law they are bailable, to their great charges and vexation: II. For the prevention whereof, and the more speedy relief of all persons imprisoned for any such criminal or supposed criminal matters...