 | Conrad Reno - Corporation law - 1892 - 466 pages
...state court, the federal courts will discharge him on habeas corpus, on the ground that he is held " in custody in violation of the constitution, or of a law or treaty of the United States," within the meaning of the Revised Statutes, section 753.* But if the accused person has been kidnaped... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 774 pages
...29, 1842, 5 Stat. 539, c. 257, the power was further extended to issue the writ when the prisoner, being a subject or citizen of a foreign State and domiciled therein, " shall be committed or confined, or in custody, under or by any authority or law, or process founded... | |
 | Stephen Johnson Field - California - 1893 - 488 pages
...753) declare that the writ of habeas cmjms shall not extend to " a prisoner in jail unless where he is in custody — for an act done or omitted in pursuance...process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States," it was urged... | |
 | Freeman Snow - International law - 1893 - 636 pages
...shall have power, by habeas corpus, to deliver a person held in custody or restrained of his liberty in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States. " The petitioners, as we have seen, are restrained of their liberty in violation of the Constitution,... | |
 | William Smithers Church - Habeas corpus - 1893 - 1080 pages
...to be elected, they may be discharged on habeas corpus as being restrained of their liberty, etc., "for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States."4 But the appointment and removal of officers of a municipality of a state are not subjects... | |
 | John Downey Works - Jurisdiction - 1894 - 956 pages
...cases where the prisoner is confined in violation of some law or treaty of the United States, or is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or under some other circumstances which will bring the case within some principle upon which the federal... | |
 | Theodore William Dwight - Personal property - 1894 - 940 pages
...inquiry into the cause of restraint in specified cases. One of these is, where being in jail the prisoner is in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States.6 The statute confers both upon the Circuit Court and the Supreme Court, the power to issue... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 956 pages
...into the cause 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," he is entitled to be discharged, no matter from whom or under what authority the process under which... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...the party seeking the beneftt of the writ of habeas corpus must in this connection show that he is " in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States," makes it necessary that upon this occasion it should be shown that the act for which Neagle is imprisoned... | |
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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... 
