| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1132 pages
...1774, understood them to mean trial 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 Comm. ft. Such was the understanding of Coke when he wrote his commentary... | |
| William Augustus Mowry - United States - 1887 - 312 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, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,... | |
| Kansas - 1891 - 564 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; 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,... | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1895 - 508 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, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,... | |
| Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 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 the law. Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes... | |
| Henry Campbell Black - Constitutional law - 1897 - 792 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 English common law, in so far as it Is applicable In thl» country, and where... | |
| William MacDonald - History - 1899 - 422 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, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes,... | |
| John Randolph Tucker - Constitutional law - 1899 - 514 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. of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 392 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."3 Amidst the troubles which heralded the Eevolution, the Common Law was claimed... | |
| Law - 1900 - 304 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." It further declared: "That they are entitled to the benefit of such of their statutes... | |
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