| William Blackstone - 1890 - 640 pages
...28N.Y.114; I7W.Va. 606. judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court [see note 20, page 15.1], commanding them to cease from the prosecution thereof,...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.* This writ may issue either to inferior courts of common law ; as, to the courts of the counties palatine... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1890 - 1142 pages
...prohibited ? Blackstone says the writ of prohibition is "directed to the judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the...a suggestion that either the cause originally, or gome collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance... | |
| John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...court of chancery, common pleas, or exchequer. It is directed to the judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court. 25. What if the judge, or tlie party, shall proceed after prohibition?— -113. An attachment may be... | |
| New Brunswick. Supreme Court, Ward Chipman, John Campbell Allen, Allen Otty Earle, Thomas Carleton Allen, George F. S. Berton, David Shank Kerr, George B. Seely, James Hannay, William Pugsley, Arthur I. Trueman, George Wheelock Burbidge, George W. Allen, John L. Carleton, William Henry Harrison, Ernest Doiron, Douglas King Hazen - 1892 - 808 pages
...ed.) 112, it is said that a prohibition is a writ directed to the Judge and parties to a suit in any inferior Court, commanding them to cease from the...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other Court. In Warner v. Sackerman (1) Lord Coke said: " We, in this Court (The King's Bench) may prohibit any... | |
| Samuel Maxwell - 1892 - 932 pages
...an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of the same upon a suggestion that the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court.1 The writ is of very ancient origin, and, from the earliest times, in England, has been employed... | |
| Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1892 - 1020 pages
...parties of a suit in an inferior court to cease the prosecution thereof, upon a suggestion that the case originally, or some collateral matter arising therein,...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court. If this position be correct, and we think it is, the writ of prohibition in this instance was not the... | |
| William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1893 - 558 pages
...judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court, commnndiiig_ them to cease from the ptoswmtiQii_ thereof, upon a suggestion that either the cause originally,...collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdictipji, but to the cognizance of some other court. And if either the judge or the party shall... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - 1894 - 786 pages
...the writ is stated in 3 Bl. Com. 112, as " A writ directed to the judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the...goes against " as well the party and his counsel as the judge himself," 5 Jac. Law Die. (1st Am. Ed.) 316. If a court has no jurisdiction of a cause, nor... | |
| Philemon Bliss - 1894 - 858 pages
...king's bench, being the king's prerogative writ, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in any inferior court, commanding them to cease from the...jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court" 81 The writ of prohibition commands the person to whom it is directed not to do something «» Illinois,... | |
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