 | 1855 - 804 sider
...all cases of prisoners in confinement, where they shall be confined by any authority of law for any act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, or any process of a judge or court thereof." I will not weaken by a repetition, that clear and conclusive... | |
 | 1890 - 542 sider
...supreme law of the land. It is therefore only necessary to inquire and ascertain whether the petitioner is in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, in order to dispose of the case. As we have seen from the statement of facts, Mr. Justice Field of... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1870 - 670 sider
...relator, and he is in confinement for detaining the soldier, as he was required to do by law, — that is, "for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States." The question thus presented is one of vast importance, and I have endeavored to bestow upon it that... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1871 - 648 sider
...a prisoner . . in confinement where he . . shall be confined on or by any authority or law for any act done . . in pursuance of a law of the United States, or any . . process of any judge or court of the same." And this act, by the express provision of the Constitution... | |
 | 1875 - 722 sider
...in 1833, when the nullification proceedings were adopted in South Carolina, it was extended to those in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judgment of any of its courts ; in 1842, when the complications growing out of the McLeod case,... | |
 | 1875 - 788 sider
...in 1833, when the nullification proceedings were adopted in South Carolina, it was extended to those in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judgment of any of its courts; in 1842, when the complications growing out of the McLeod case... | |
 | 1875 - 462 sider
...apply for such a process to a jndge of the United States court; and, if the process against him is for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, such jndge has full anthority to discharge him from his imprisonment. It struck us as it did Jndge... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1876 - 812 sider
...in 1833, when the nullification proceedings were adopted in South Carolina, it was extended to those in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judgment of any its courts. 4 Stat., 634. The primary object of this statute was to protect the... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1876 - 720 sider
...in 1833, when the nullification proceedings were adopted in South Carolina, it was extended to those in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of a judgment of any of its courts; in 184'2, when the complications growing out of the McLeod ease... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (8th Circuit), John Forrest Dillon - 1878 - 718 sider
...section 753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States which relates to the case of a prisoner " in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States." The law of the United States here referred to is to be found in sections 5278 and 5279 of the Revised... | |
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Court discharging the prisoner, that he was held "in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States... 
