The Early Jurisprudence of New Hampshire: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the N.H. Historical Society, June 13, 1883 |
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... magistrates & their assosiates shall pceede in the courts to heare & determine all causes according to the lawes nowe established , & where there is noe law , then as neere the lawe of God as they can ; & for all busines out of Court ...
... magistrates & their assosiates shall pceede in the courts to heare & determine all causes according to the lawes nowe established , & where there is noe law , then as neere the lawe of God as they can ; & for all busines out of Court ...
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... magistrates had been educated as lawyers , but for a long period , with a single brief exception in each colony , no lawyers educated as such were engaged in the practice of the law . As a consequence , whoever could read and write ...
... magistrates had been educated as lawyers , but for a long period , with a single brief exception in each colony , no lawyers educated as such were engaged in the practice of the law . As a consequence , whoever could read and write ...
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... magistrates , and much time lost in sending to seeke them out , or waite their coming in , whereby the countryes ... magistrate to answer any crime , doe not , vppon somons , appeare at the time appointed vppon the third call , as ...
... magistrates , and much time lost in sending to seeke them out , or waite their coming in , whereby the countryes ... magistrate to answer any crime , doe not , vppon somons , appeare at the time appointed vppon the third call , as ...
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... magistrates , who had been trained in the inns of chancery or of court , and in this way one or more of the codes in the Bay col- ony were adopted . Our code of 1680 , if the Jewish law was to be made the basis of our jurisprudence ...
... magistrates , who had been trained in the inns of chancery or of court , and in this way one or more of the codes in the Bay col- ony were adopted . Our code of 1680 , if the Jewish law was to be made the basis of our jurisprudence ...
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... magistrate that hath propper cognizance of the case , for rayl- ing or scolding , shall be gagged or sett in a ducking stoole & dipt ouer head & eares three times , in some convenient place of fresh or salt water , as the Court or ...
... magistrate that hath propper cognizance of the case , for rayl- ing or scolding , shall be gagged or sett in a ducking stoole & dipt ouer head & eares three times , in some convenient place of fresh or salt water , as the Court or ...
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Page 4 - ... it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof, that the...
Page 11 - ... or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same, established by a general court, and sufficiently published ; or in case of the defect of a law, in any particular case, by the Word of God.
Page 4 - Court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labour, feasting or any other way, upon any such accounts as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shillings, as a fine to the county.
Page 10 - No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor...
Page 49 - Cloth of, a contrary colour to their cloathes, and sewed upon their upper Garments, on the outside of their Arm, or on their back in open view. And if any person or persons having been convicted and sentenced for such offence, shall at...
Page 45 - ... in rayling and scolding, it is therefore ordered, that all such persons convicted, before any Court or magistrate that hath propper cognizance of the...
Page 25 - Majesty's name, to take these vagabond Quakers, Anna Coleman, Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose, and make them fast to the cart's tail ; and drawing the cart through your several towns, to whip them upon their naked backs, not exceeding ten stripes apiece on each of them, in each town ; and so convey them from constable to constable till they are out of this jurisdiction, as you will answer it at your peril ; and this shall be your warrant.
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Page 81 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.