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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... hereby established , nor to suspend any of the present Members thereof without good and sufficient cause : And in case of suspension of any them , you are to cause your Reasons for so doing , together with the Charges and Proofs against ...
... hereby established , nor to suspend any of the present Members thereof without good and sufficient cause : And in case of suspension of any them , you are to cause your Reasons for so doing , together with the Charges and Proofs against ...
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... hereby order and allot unto him to- wards his Maintenance , and for the better Support of the Dignity of that our Government . 25. Whereas great Prejudices may happen to our Ser- vice and the Security of our said Province under your ...
... hereby order and allot unto him to- wards his Maintenance , and for the better Support of the Dignity of that our Government . 25. Whereas great Prejudices may happen to our Ser- vice and the Security of our said Province under your ...
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... you shall not by colour of any Power or Authority hereby or otherwise granted or mentioned to be granted unto you , take upon you to give , grant or dispose of any Office or Place within our said Province , which now is or 224 APPENDIX B.
... you shall not by colour of any Power or Authority hereby or otherwise granted or mentioned to be granted unto you , take upon you to give , grant or dispose of any Office or Place within our said Province , which now is or 224 APPENDIX B.
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... hereby further direct and require you to send all such accessories in Cases of Piracy in our aforesaid Pro- vince of Nova- Cæsarea , or New - Jersey , with the Proper Evidences that you may have against them , into England , in order to ...
... hereby further direct and require you to send all such accessories in Cases of Piracy in our aforesaid Pro- vince of Nova- Cæsarea , or New - Jersey , with the Proper Evidences that you may have against them , into England , in order to ...
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... hereby required upon such Application made to you , by any of the Commanders of our said Ships of War within our Province of Nova - Cæsarea , or New - Jersey , to take care that our said Ships of War be furnished with a num- per of ...
... hereby required upon such Application made to you , by any of the Commanders of our said Ships of War within our Province of Nova - Cæsarea , or New - Jersey , to take care that our said Ships of War be furnished with a num- per of ...
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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 168 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
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 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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 234 - England. 70. You shall be careful that the churches already built there, be well and orderly kept, and that more be built, as the colony shall by God's blessing be improved; and that besides a competent maintenance to be assigned to the minister of each orthodox church, a convenient house be built at the common charge for each minister, and a competent proportion of land assigned to him, for a glebe and exercise of his industry.