 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...into the canse of the imprisonment of the petitioner, and if, upon such inquiry, he is found to be " in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States," then he is in custody in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and he is entitled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 738 pages
...extended, first in 1833,* to prisoners confined under any authority, whether State or National, for any act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United * 4 Stat. at Large, 634. Opinion of the court. States, or of any order, process, or decree of any judge... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...nullification, which forms a clanse in the Revised Statutes in these words, after the words already qnoted, " or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process or decree of a court or jndge thereof." " And, in more recent times," says... | |
 | United States - Naval law - 1875 - 388 pages
...pristhority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court onel la ш Jal ' thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...Dorr, 3 How (U. S.) 103; 1 US Stat. at Large, 81. Persons imprisoned by authority of a state, for acts done or omitted, in pursuance of a law of the United States, may be discharged on a habeas corpus issued by a judge of the United States pourte. 4 US Stat. at Large,... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 816 pages
...Revised Statutes, " the writ of habeas corpus shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless whero he is in custody * * * for an act done or omitted, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process or decree of a court or judge thereof." Although the words used are those of... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Admiralty - 1877 - 684 pages
...jurisdiction to release- him from his imprisonment. He must be in custody in the language of the statute for an act done or omitted, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and the question therefore presents... | |
 | Rollin Augustus Ives - Military law - 1879 - 514 pages
...Ibid., § 752. authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1118 pages
...States, unless the case Is one of urgency, calling for Immediate action; and this Is the rule even though he is in custody for an act done or omitted In pursuance of a law of the United States, although in general such cases are ones of peculiar urgency, Involving the authority and operations... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1912 pages
...color of the authority of the United States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or an order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; or is in custody in violation of the constitution... | |
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States, or is committed for trial before some court thereof; or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States... 
