| William Edward Birkhimer - 1892 - 578 pages
...extend to a prisoner in jail unless when he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States ; or is committed for trial before some...court thereof ; or is in custody for an act done or committed in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of a court... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1892 - 1030 pages
...courts and judges may issue writs of habeat eorput for the release of prisoners in custody for acts done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States, or of an order, process, or decree of the court or judge thereof, or in custody in violation of the constitution, laws, or treaties of the... | |
| Alexander E. Wagstaff - 1892 - 562 pages
...into the cause of the imprisonment of the petitioner, and if, upon such inquiry, he is found to be 'in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States,' then he is in custody in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and he is entitled... | |
| Conrad Reno - 1892 - 466 pages
...state court, the federal courts will discharge him on habeas corpus, on the ground that he is held " in custody in violation of the constitution, or of a law or treaty of the United States," within the meaning of the Revised Statutes, section 753.* But if the accused person has been kidnaped... | |
| Stephen Johnson Field - 1893 - 488 pages
...753) declare that the writ of habeas cmjms shall not extend to " a prisoner in jail unless where he is in custody — for an act done or omitted in pursuance...process, or decree of a court or judge thereof, or in custody in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States," it was urged... | |
| Freeman Snow - 1893 - 636 pages
...shall have power, by habeas corpus, to deliver a person held in custody or restrained of his liberty in violation of the Constitution or of a law or treaty of the United States. " The petitioners, as we have seen, are restrained of their liberty in violation of the Constitution,... | |
| William Smithers Church - 1893 - 1080 pages
...to be elected, they may be discharged on habeas corpus as being restrained of their liberty, etc., "for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States."4 But the appointment and removal of officers of a municipality of a state are not subjects... | |
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