 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1869 - 654 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge; it assumes, in the language in the text books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense." The learned judge cites cases from British history, where bills of this character had been passed,... | |
 | 1882 - 408 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge; it assumes, in the language of the text books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense." A legislative act which usurps judicial powers is declared by the foregoing decision to be most obnoxious... | |
 | 1885 - 890 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge; it assumes, in the language of the tent-books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense. § 615. Tin? history of bills of attainder. "Bills of this sort," says Mr. Justice Story, "have been... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1886 - 800 էջ
...produced, whether conformable to 1 4 Wall. 323, 324. the rules of evidence or otherwise ; and it fixes tne degree of punishment in accordance with its own notions of the enormity of the offence. . . . These bills are generally directed against individuals by name ; but they may be directed... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper - 1887 - 1030 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge ; it assumes, in the language of the text-book, judicial magistracy ; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense. These bills are generally directed against the individuals by name, but they may be directed against... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1890 - 704 էջ
...exercises the powers and office of a judge; it assumes, in the language of the textbooks, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense." (ObHMMM v. Missouri, 4 Wall. 323.) The petitioner is entitled to her discharge, and it is so ordered.... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 500 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge; it assumes, in the language of the text-books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense These bills are generally directed against individuals by name; but they may be directed against a... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 548 էջ
...or safeguards of trial ; it determines the sufficiency of the proofs produced, whether ccnformable to the rules of evidence or otherwise ; and it fixes...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense These bills are generally directed against individuals by name ; but they may be directed against a... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 514 էջ
...to the rules of evidence or otherwise ; and it fixes the degree > Ex Parte, Milligan, 4 Wallace 2. of punishment in accordance with its own notions of the enormity of the offense These bills are generally directed against individuals by name ; but they may be directed against a... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - 702 էջ
...functions, exercises the powers and office of judge; it assumes, in the language of the text-books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party,...with its own notions of the enormity of the offense. "Bills of this sort," says Mr. Justice Story, "have been most usually passed in England in times of... | |
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... judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party, without any of the forms or safe-guards of trial; it determines the sufficiency of the proofs produced, whether conformable to the rules of evidence or otherwise; and it fixes the degree... 
