 | United States. Court of Claims - 1856 - 860 sider
...1774, did, on the 6th of October following, resolve among other things, " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more...peers of the vicinage, according to the course of the common law," &c. * This right of trial by jury,vfhen interpreted by the common law. and by the... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 sider
...unanimous resolution of the Congress of seventeen hundred and seventy-four, "that the respective Colonies are ENTITLED to the COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND, and more...the vicinage, according to the course of that law" They could refer to the Constitution of their own State, which » Infra, iv. 129. recognized the existence... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 sider
...by jury, which ought to be held sacred."J 1774, declares that " the respective colonies are entitled to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried...peers of the vicinage, according to the course of the common law." And the Declaration of Independence, in its eloquent recital of the causes of separation,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 660 sider
...Declaration of Rights were combined, thus: " Resolved, nemine contradicente, that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more...the vicinage, according to the course of that law." One cannot but ask how this great, inestimable privilege of trial by peers would have been regarded,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 548 sider
...grievances of the colonies. On the same day, Congress unanimously resolved, " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more...the great and inestimable privilege of being tried bv their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law." They further resolved, " that... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 sider
...the rights and grievances of the colonies. It was unanimously resolved " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilège of being tried ly their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law ; " "... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 966 sider
...unanimous resolution of the Congress of seventeen hundred and seventy-four, " that the respective Colonies are ENTITLED to the COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND, and more...the vicinage, according to the course of that law" They could refer to the Constitution of their own State, which » Infra, iv. 129. f Jefferson to Randolph.... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1865 - 580 sider
...raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent. 5. That the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more...the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1865 - 954 sider
...seventeen hundred and seventy-four, " that the respective Colonies are ENTITLED to the COMMON LAW OP ENGLAND, and more especially to the great and inestimable...the vicinage, according to the course of that law." They could refer to the Constitution of their own State, which » Infra, iv. 129. Jefferson's Works,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1865 - 384 sider
...Congress, in 1774, unanimously resolved, that the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege...the vicinage according to the course of that law. § 16. Independently, however, of the special recognitions of the Crown, there is a great conservative... | |
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That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 
