The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar : a Discourse Read Before the New Jersey Historical Society |
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... inhabitants of distant counties better acquainted with the capital city , and more accustomed to the course of go- vernment , and to impair the spirit of provincial patriotism and animosity . " -Hallam's Constitutional Hist . of England ...
... inhabitants of distant counties better acquainted with the capital city , and more accustomed to the course of go- vernment , and to impair the spirit of provincial patriotism and animosity . " -Hallam's Constitutional Hist . of England ...
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... inhabitants of the County of Middlesex , because of the frequent floods that carried away the fences on their meadows , and so by consequence their interest was divided from the other inhabit- ants of the said County . - Grants and ...
... inhabitants of the County of Middlesex , because of the frequent floods that carried away the fences on their meadows , and so by consequence their interest was divided from the other inhabit- ants of the said County . - Grants and ...
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... inhabitants of the Province having by that time become sensi- ble , as the act declared , " that Amboy was more ' Grants and Concessions , p . 232 . conveniently situated , near the centre of the Pro- vince COURT OF COMMON RIGHT . 13.
... inhabitants of the Province having by that time become sensi- ble , as the act declared , " that Amboy was more ' Grants and Concessions , p . 232 . conveniently situated , near the centre of the Pro- vince COURT OF COMMON RIGHT . 13.
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... inhabitants of the said Province , but by the authority of the General As- sembly . " In short , it guarantied complete security of person and property , under laws to be enacted by an Assembly composed of the Governor and Council , and ...
... inhabitants of the said Province , but by the authority of the General As- sembly . " In short , it guarantied complete security of person and property , under laws to be enacted by an Assembly composed of the Governor and Council , and ...
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... inhabitants of the Province , without the con- sent and authority of the General Assembly . It would seem as if , with prophetic spirit , they had foreseen the very form in which tyranny would as- sail them . So dear to them was the ...
... inhabitants of the Province , without the con- sent and authority of the General Assembly . It would seem as if , with prophetic spirit , they had foreseen the very form in which tyranny would as- sail them . So dear to them was the ...
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Act of Parliament administration Amboy Attorney Bench Bergen Burlington Cape-May Causes charge Chief Justice Colonies Commission Commissioners for Trade Constable Constitution Cornbury's Coun Council County Courts Court of Chancery Court of Common Court of Judicature Court of Sessions Court-house Daniel Coxe Declaration Defendant East Elizabethtown England Execution Forty Shillings fourth Monday fourth Tuesday Freehold Government Governor Hunter Grand Jury Grants and Concessions held hereby further Ordain House Impowered Indictment Inhabitants James Kinsey Jeremiah Basse Judges Judgment land lawyers Lewis Morris Lord Cornbury Loving Subjects Mompesson Morris Newark Ordain and Direct Peace Penn Pennsylvania Perth-Amboy Pinhorne Proprietors Province of New-Jersey Province of Nova-Cæsarea publick Quakers Reign respective County Robert Hunter Morris Salem says second Monday second Tuesday Smith's N. J. Supreme Court thereof third Monday third Tuesday thought fit Thursday next ensuing tion Trade and Plantations vince West Jersey Whereas William York
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Page 247 - Our Will and Pleasure is, that the Persons thereupon duly elected, by the Major part of the Freeholders of the respective Counties and Places so returned, and having before sitting, taken the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy...
Page 216 - ... you are also, as much as possible, to observe in the passing of all laws, that whatever may be requisite upon each different matter, be accordingly provided for, by a different law, without intermixing in one and the same act, such things, as have no proper relation to each other ; and you are more especially to take care, that no clause or clauses be inserted in, or annexed to any act, which shall be foreign to what the title of such respective act imports...
Page 244 - Anne, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, queen, defender of the faith, &c.
Page 249 - Power in the making and passing of all Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as aforesaid. And that you shall and may likewise from Time to Time, as you shall judge it necessary, adjourn, prorogue and dissolve all General Assemblies.
Page 227 - ... the oaths appointed by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late royal father, to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy...
Page 250 - Fines or Forfeitures due unto Us, fit Objects of Our Mercy, to pardon all such Offenders...
Page 121 - A Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey, at the suit of John, Earl of •Stair, and others, Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey ; against Benjamin Bond and some other Persons of Elizabethtown, distinguished by the Name of the Clinker Lot Right Men.
Page 168 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 247 - Council, any three whereof We do hereby appoint to be a Quorum; Our Will and Pleasure is, that you signify the same unto us by the first opportunity, that We may under Our Signet and Sign Manual constitute and appoint others in their Stead. But that Our Affairs may not suffer at that Distance, for Want of a due Number of Councillors...
Page 235 - AND you are to take especial care, that a Table of Marriages, established by the Canons of the Church of England...