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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... persons , to be chosen by the people , of whom a Justice of the Peace was to be one.3 Then , there were the County Courts or Courts of Sessions , " to be held twice a year in every county , the Judges ! Whitehead's East Jersey , 55 . 2 ...
... persons , to be chosen by the people , of whom a Justice of the Peace was to be one.3 Then , there were the County Courts or Courts of Sessions , " to be held twice a year in every county , the Judges ! Whitehead's East Jersey , 55 . 2 ...
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... reason assigned for the division is a whimsical one . It was because the uppermost part of Raritan River was settled by persons who , in the Judges were to consist of the Justices of the Peace EAST JERSEY DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES . 11.
... reason assigned for the division is a whimsical one . It was because the uppermost part of Raritan River was settled by persons who , in the Judges were to consist of the Justices of the Peace EAST JERSEY DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES . 11.
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... person and property , under laws to be enacted by an Assembly composed of the Governor and Council , and at least an equal number of the rep- resentatives of the people . Strange , that a Con- 18 CONCESSIONS OF BERKLEY AND CARTERET .
... person and property , under laws to be enacted by an Assembly composed of the Governor and Council , and at least an equal number of the rep- resentatives of the people . Strange , that a Con- 18 CONCESSIONS OF BERKLEY AND CARTERET .
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... persons of all persuasions , might freely appear in their own way , and there plead their own causes themselves , or if unable , by their friends ; and that no person should be allowed to take money for pleading or advice in such cases ...
... persons of all persuasions , might freely appear in their own way , and there plead their own causes themselves , or if unable , by their friends ; and that no person should be allowed to take money for pleading or advice in such cases ...
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... person should be found guilty of murder or treason , the sen- tence and way of execution were to be left to the General Assembly to determine as they in the wisdom of the Lord should judge meet and expedient . - Grants and Concessions ...
... person should be found guilty of murder or treason , the sen- tence and way of execution were to be left to the General Assembly to determine as they in the wisdom of the Lord should judge meet and expedient . - Grants and Concessions ...
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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...