 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1793 - 786 pages
...but may alfo be a good vvitneis, notwithilar.ding the attainder or conviction ; becaufe the pardon makes him as it were a new man, and gives him a new capaciîy and credit. 2 Haw. 395. But it feems to be the better opinion, that the pardon of a conviction... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 418 pages
...traitor or a felon, after the time of the pardon, but may alfo be a geod witnefs : becaufe the pardon makes him as it were a new man, and gives him a new capacity and credit. 2 Hawk. PI. Cr. ca. 37. and ca. 46. t HAI.E, to the fame point fays, if the .king... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1845 - 1304 pages
...recent act of 6 & 7 Viet. c. 85, « ?ood witness, notwithstanding the attainder or conviction. The rara makes him, as it were, a new man, and gives him a new capacity :re>w. (-2 Hatch, c. 37, s. 48.) But it seems to have been the *c trinionthat the pardon of... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Election law - 1852 - 828 pages
...unto it;' and in Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown, it is said, on the authority of Holt, CJ, 'the pardon makes him, as it were, a new man, and gives him a new capacity and credit.'* This doctrine was to its full extent recognized and acted upon in Ex parte Barber,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1867 - 636 pages
...conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching. If granted after conviction, it removes the penalties...new man, and gives him a new credit and capacity. There is only this limitation to its operation — it does not restore offices forfeited, or property... | |
 | 1867 - 312 pages
...conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties...new man. and gives him a new credit and capacity/' Thus far the majority report quotes, but we add another passage or two equally strong : "The pardon... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1867 - 732 pages
...conviction it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching; if granted after conviction it removes the penalties...disabilities and restores him to all his civil rights. It gives him a new credit and capacity. There is only this limitation to its operation : it does not restore... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 438 pages
...before conviction, it prevents any of the disabilities con sequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties...gives him a new credit and capacity. Ex parte Garland, 4 Wallace, 380, 381. This court is obliged to conform to these principles. Judge Duval, in the case... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 538 pages
...before conviction, it prevents any of the disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties...gives him a new credit and capacity. Ex parte Garland, 4 Wallace, 380, 3S1. This, court is obliged to conform to these principles. Judge Duval, in the case... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1868 - 424 pages
...conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction, from attaching. If granted after conviction, it removes the penalties...new man, and gives him a new credit and capacity. There is only this limit to its operation: it does not restore offices forfeited, or property or interests... | |
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If granted before conviction, it prevents any of the penalties and disabilities consequent upon conviction from attaching ; if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities, and restores him to all his civil rights; it makes him,... 
