| 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... | |
| Law - 1878 - 560 pages
...writ shall extend to no person in jail, with a series of exceptions, one of which is that the party "is in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or a treaty of the United States." This provision would seem to cover the case of a person extradited... | |
| Rollin Augustus Ives - Military law - 1879 - 514 pages
...§ 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...in custody in violation of the constitution, or of law or treaty of the United States ; or etc., or unless it is necessary to bring a witness into court... | |
| Thomas Henry Tibbles - Indians of North America - 1879 - 172 pages
...where the prisoner ' is in custody under or by color of authority of the United States, * * * or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, * * * or in custody in violation of the constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States.' Thus it will... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1104 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...Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States," etc. It will thus be seen that the power of federal courts to issue this writ is coextensive with the... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1880 - 426 pages
...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...order, process, or decree of a court or judge thereof; 8 or is in custody in violation of the Con1 Gold Washing, &c. Co. v. Keyes, 96 TJ. S. Rep. 199. 2 Where... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1910 pages
...except as it is extended by the act of 1867 (now section 7f>3, Kev. St.) to prisoners "in custody lor an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the...process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or in violation of the constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States," etc. An apparent, though... | |
| 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 1900 pages
...1867 the writ of habeas corpus from the courts and judges of the United States was extended to persons in custody, in violation of the constitution, or of a law or treaty of the United States. Rev. St. § 753. The law of the United States was, and is, that the relator should be tried by the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1118 pages
...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... | |
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