 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 986 pages
...1774, understood them to mean tri;il by jury, — that they secured to them "the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course" of the common law. 2 Kent, Com. 6. Such was the understanding of Coke when he wrote his commentary... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1228 pages
...colonists 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." 1 Journ. Cong., 27-29. These declarations were subsequently emphasized iu the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1152 pages
...are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilge of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, 'according to the course of that law." 1 Journals of Congress. 28. The Constitution of the United States as framed in... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 332 pages
...colonies were 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 ; that they were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1968 - 1332 pages
...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." " The Declaration of Independence stated solemn objections to the King making... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 714 pages
...essential were the exclusive power to tax themselves and to trial by jury. to the great and estimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law; that they were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1968 - 1834 pages
...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." » The Declaration of Independence stated solemn objections to the King making... | |
 | United States - Constitutions - 1969 - 348 pages
...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. Resolved, NCD 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes... | |
 | United States - 1974 - 170 pages
...iheir confent. Refolded, NCD 5. THAT the refpective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more efpecially to the great and ineftimable privilege...the vicinage, according to the courfe of that law. Refolded, 6. THAT they are entitled to the benefit of luch of the Englifh ftatutes, as exifted at the... | |
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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. 
