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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... necessary for the hearing and de- termining of all causes , as well criminal as civil , according to law and equity . Similar authority was given to all succeeding Governors . Thus , the important power of establishing Courts for the ad ...
... necessary for the hearing and de- termining of all causes , as well criminal as civil , according to law and equity . Similar authority was given to all succeeding Governors . Thus , the important power of establishing Courts for the ad ...
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... necessary , in order to propitiate the Assembly , that Pinhorne and his associates should be removed from the Council . The House went so far as to declare , that so long as these individuals remained in places of trust , they could not ...
... necessary , in order to propitiate the Assembly , that Pinhorne and his associates should be removed from the Council . The House went so far as to declare , that so long as these individuals remained in places of trust , they could not ...
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... necessary for the satisfaction of the minds of the scrupulous , and stopping the mouths of the clamorous and sedi- tious , until a more effectual method may be pur- sued , if necessity so require , to set that affair in so clear a light ...
... necessary for the satisfaction of the minds of the scrupulous , and stopping the mouths of the clamorous and sedi- tious , until a more effectual method may be pur- sued , if necessity so require , to set that affair in so clear a light ...
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... necessary in the ad- ministration of justice , for the purpose of mitigat- ing the rigor of the law , whose judgments are tied down to fixed and unalterable rules , and for open- ing the way to the right and equity of a cause , for ...
... necessary in the ad- ministration of justice , for the purpose of mitigat- ing the rigor of the law , whose judgments are tied down to fixed and unalterable rules , and for open- ing the way to the right and equity of a cause , for ...
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... necessary to make a solemn order , by which it was provided , that it should be a standing rule of the Court of Chancery , for the Province of Pennsylvania , in all time to come , that any person professing to be one of the people ...
... necessary to make a solemn order , by which it was provided , that it should be a standing rule of the Court of Chancery , for the Province of Pennsylvania , in all time to come , that any person professing to be one of the people ...
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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...