 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...treaty. It is sufficient if there is a judicial proceeding, in which a correct decision depends upon the construction of the Constitution, or a law or treaty of the United States. Nor is a case taken out of the operation of this clause of the Constitution by the fact that questions... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...their authority." 4. That such cases arise whenever a correct decision in regard to them depends upon the construction of the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States. 6. That Congress, by a series of acts, commencing with the Judiciary Act of 1789, and providing for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...own government; and in more recent times it has been extended to all persons in custody in violation of the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States. The present case belongs to the last category, and is relieved from the impediment to the use of a... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...in more recent times," says Jndge B., "it has been extended to all persons in custody in violation of the Constitution, or a law or treaty of the United States." And he adds, " the case is relieved from the impediment to the use of a habeas corpus which formerly... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...own government ; and in more recent times it has been extended to all persons in custody in violation of the constitution or a law or treaty of the United States. The present case belongs to the last category, and is relieved from the impediment to the use of a... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 842 pages
...own government; and in more recent times it has been extended to all persons in custody in violation of the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States. The present case belongs to the last category, and is relieved from the impediment to the use of a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 1980 pages
...of any one who "is in custody," whether under the authority of the state or otherwise, "in violation of the constitution, or a law or treaty of the United States," and to discharge him therefrom in case he is held in contravention thereof. If, then, the petitioner... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 366 pages
...involved is $1,000, those from the supreme courts of the territories where the amount involved is $1,000 or more, except Washington Territory, where the limit...Court has on its calendar at the beginning of each session not less than twelve hundred cases, out of which it can annually hear and decide not more,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 1094 pages
...courts of all the states, irrespective of amount, in certain cases involving the con(313) struction of the Constitution, or a law or treaty of the United...should also be observed that in all cases between §500 and §5,000 the decisions of the circuit courts are final. The mischief resulting from this state... | |
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... custody in violation of the Constitution or a law or treaty of the United States... 
