 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - Law - 1922 - 1150 pages
...efface and to cause to be forgotten a crime or misdemeaner; the latter is an act of the same authority, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law mflicts for the crime he has committed. 7 Pet. (US) 160. Amnesty is the abolition and forgetfulness... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - Kansas - 1925 - 602 pages
...power power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts 1 Constitution, Ait. n, Sec. 2. the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." * The language conferring this power is general, and hence the pardon may be absolute or conditional;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1502 pages
...of it." From that source of authority and principle the court deduced and declared this conclusion: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of [9O] the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 564 pages
...examination of the nature, scope and effect of a pardon may prove not without interest. What is a pardon? A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. Pardon is to be distinguished from amnesty. The former applies only to the individual, releases him... | |
 | New York (State), James Christopher Cahill - Criminal law - 1928 - 444 pages
...Decker v. Page, 125 Misc. 53S, 211 NYS 401 (1925). Pardon. — In general. A pardon has been defined as an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed. People ex rel. Bcnton v. Court of Sessions of Monroe County, 46 NY St.... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Attorney General - Attorneys general's opinions - 1928 - 874 pages
...Constitution of 1850. A pardon is defined to be an act of grace usually proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment which the law inflicts for the crime he has committed. Bouviers Law Dictionary. People v. Cummings,... | |
 | William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1921 - 1258 pages
...US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. (US) 150, 8'L. ed. 640. See also Criminal Law § 978. [a] Reason for rule. — "It is the private, though official, act of the executive...magistrate, delivered to the individual for whose beneflt It is intended, and not communicated officially to the court. It is a constituent part of the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1945 - 610 pages
...former trial is the proper way to sustain such objection. A pardon is an act of the President that exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed, and may be offered in evidence to sustain a plea in bar of trial. Action upon special pleas. A plea... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1921 - 946 pages
...President thn power to grunt reprieves and pardons for offenses against the T'nlt.-il Stales, a pardon Is the private, though official, act of the Executive magistrate. delivered to the Individual for v>'h:iw licneflt It Is intended, nml is not cowmiiaicated officially to the court. U. 8. V. WilHOU... | |
 | United States. Department of Defense - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1951 - 686 pages
...record of trial by court-martial or civil court. e. Pardon. — A pardon is an act of the President which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law 103 9»1786°— 01 8 inflicts for a crime he has committed. A pardon may be interposed in bar of trial... | |
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A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 
