 Personal liberty," it has been well said, "consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.  The Pacific Reporter - Page 1701915Full view - About this book
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...death without being brought to answer by due process of law. The right of personal liberty consisU in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation,...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. This right there is at present no occasion to enlarge upon. For the provisions made by the laws of... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 408 pages
...that no man shall be put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law. The right of personal liberty consists in the power of loco-motion,...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. This right there is at present no occasion to enlarge upon. For the provisions made by the laws of... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 406 pages
...that no man shall be put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law. The right of personal liberty consists in the power of loco-motion,...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. This right there is at present no occasion to enlarge upon. For the provisions made by the laws of... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...individuals. This personal liberty consists in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. The confinement of the person, in any wise, is an imprisonment. So that the keeping a man against his... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 664 pages
...lilrerty, which consists in the power of locomotion, of changing or removing one's person to whatever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. The right of property, which consists in the use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions, without... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 520 pages
...liberty, which consists in the power of locomotion, of changing or removing one's person to whatever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. The right of property, which consists in the use, enjoyment, and disposal of all acquisitions, without... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...individuals. Tlus personal liberty consists in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination...observations as upon the preceding article ; that it ^ a right strictly natural ; that the laws of England have never abridged it without sufficient cause;... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 1832 - 96 pages
...consists in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatever place our own inclination may direct ; without imprisonment...which we may make the same observations as upon the precedingarticle ; that it is a right strictly natural ; that the laws of England have never abridged... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 996 pages
...legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation. — Personal liberty consists in the power of locomotion,...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law." I now come to that part of the subject at which I have already glanced, and which relates to the competence... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament, 1833 - 1834 - 994 pages
...in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one s own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law." I now come to that part of the subject at which I have already glanced, and which relates to the competence... | |
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