A Treatise on the Writ of Habeas Corpus: Including Jurisdiction, False Imprisonment, Writ of Error, Extradition, Mandamus, Certiorari, Judgments, Etc. With Practice and Forms

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Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1893 - Habeas corpus - 1025 pages

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Contents

IdemAbolition of StarChamber and other Arbitrary Courts
11
Cases of Streater and Fox the Quaker
13
The Celebrated Bushell and Shaftesbury Cases
14
Long Duration of Imprisonment
15
The Habeas Corpus Bill 14 Condition of the Prisons
16
Removal of Prisoners
17
The Celebrated Jenkes Case
18
Issuance of the Writ in Vacation
19
Imperfections of the Writ
20
THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT 31 CAR II
21
Why the Act is Fainous ? 21 Auspicious Times of the Bills Passage 22 Why the King Assented to the
22
Its Relation to Other Acts 24 To What the Act may be Assigned
24
A BRIEF REVIEW OF THIS STATUTE 25 a It Introduced No New Principle
25
b Enumeration of Abuses 26 Title Copy of WarrantStatement of Cause of Commitment Expenses
26
Denied CopyBail 28 Exceptions
27
CHAPTER II
48
xi
54
CHAPTER III
70
CHAPTER V
105
The Statutory Prohibition
111
Legislative Powers
115
CHAPTER VI
117
DEFINITION AND NATURE OF WRIT
137
Probable Cause must be Shown
148
CHAPTER IX
161
Service of the Writ
173
IN THE FEDERAL COURTS 118 Reasonable Fee may be Required of Petitioner When PART III IN THE STATE COURTS
176
In Particular Instances
181
Statutory Provisions 120 Judicial Constructions
184
CHAPTER XI
186
The Return may be Amended 156 Motion to Quash after Return Filed
187
CHAPTER XII
249
In the United States
255
At Common
262
CHAPTER XIII
263
Examination of Indictment 214 Enlarging Time 215 Fortifying Return 216 Denying Statement in Warrant 217 Cases of Bollman and Swartwout and ...
264
CHAPTER XIV
308
A Leading Principle
314
General Rules and Their Application 228 Conflict of Jurisdiction
315
Inquiry where there is No Formal Commitment
318
Inquiry into and behind Commitment
319
Commitment by United States Commissioner
320
When Order for Discharge may be Entered
321
CHAPTER XV
361
In the State Courts
367
In the State Courts
371
CHAPTER XVII
374
CHAPTER XVIII
376
CHAPTER XIX
384
CHAPTER XX
390
Constitutionality of These Statutes
422
How These Statutes are to be Construed
424
Errors Irregularity and Jurisdiction
425
Statement of Proceedings on Face of Commitment
426
Conviction without Authority of
427
Commitment for Vagrancy
428
Security to Keep the Peace
429
Commitment of Seaman ? 303 Commitment of Sheriff ? 304 Commitment of Witness
431
Commitment of Children
432
Cumulative and Erroneous Sentences
434
Evidence can not be Reviewed or Facts Retried
435
CHAPTER XXIII
436
Commitment by Court of General Jurisdiction
447
Commitment by Court of Limited Jurisdiction
448
CHAPTER XXIV
474
CHAPTER XXV
500
375 The Mittimus
533
Power of Courts to Modify Their Own Judgments
541
HAB COR 8
545
IN CIVIL CASES
566
RES JUDICATA
570
e Appeals in State Courts
592
2389f Error from Federal to State Court
598
n Statement of FactsTranscript Record Briefs
606
CHAPTER XXVIII
620
Application is Addressed to Sound Discretion of Court
631
Rules for Determining whether Proof is Evident
637
Evidence to Repel Presumption arising from Indictment
647
Excessive BailTranscript
654
CHAPTER XXX
662
CHAPTER XXXII
692
Supersedeas Appeal Action and Foreign Jurisdiction
726
CHAPTER XXXIII
733
CHAPTER XXXIV
741
b Guardian may have Habeas Corpus When
748
CHAPTER XXXVII
766
a Subsequent Arrest on Civil Process
785
EXTRADITION FROM THE UNITED STATES
789
Reviewing Decision of Commissioner on Habeas Corpus
800
Checks of Legal Functions upon Each Other
808
Forcible or Illegal Capture in Another State
810
e Laws of Another State
821
a Executive Decision to Surrender is not Final
829
Sufficiency of Indictment
837
Jurisdiction of State and Federal Courts
865
Commitment by Notary Public 320 Commitment by United States Commissioner
949
Capias ad Satisfaciendum
955
Arrest and Trial for Different Offense
984
Powers of Courts of Chancery
998

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Page 101 - Each of the justices shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the State, upon petition by or on behalf of any person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable before himself or the Supreme Court, or before any District Court of Appeal, or before any judge thereof, or before any Superior Court in the State, or before any judge thereof.
Page 799 - ... notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
Page 390 - Probable cause" has been defined as a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged.
Page 60 - ... the judgments or decrees of the circuit courts of appeals shall be final in all cases in which the jurisdiction is dependent entirely upon the opposite parties to the suit or controversy, being aliens and citizens of the United States or citizens of different States...
Page 114 - ... out of the complex character of our government, and the existence of two distinct and separate sovereignties within the same territorial space, each of them restricted in its powers, and each, within its- sphere of action prescribed by the constitution of the United States, independent of the other.
Page 52 - ... enacted, that where any person shall appear to be committed by any judge or justice of the peace, and charged as accessory before the fact, to any petty treason or felony, or upon suspicion thereof, or with suspicion of petty treason or felony, which petty treason or felony...
Page 59 - In any case in which the constitutionality of any law of the United States, or the validity or construction of any treaty made under its authority, is drawn in question. In any case in which the constitution or law of a State is claimed to be in contravention of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 37 - That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the Rebellion shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or other place of confinement, by any military authority, or by the sentence of any court-martial or military commission.
Page 46 - ... plainly and specially expressed in the warrant of commitment), upon payment or tender of the charges of bringing...
Page 62 - That no appeal or writ of error by which any order, judgment or decree may be reviewed in the Circuit Court of Appeals under the provisions of this act shall be taken or sued out except within six months after the entry of the order, judgment or decree sought to be reviewed...

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