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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... require this one thing concerning the Court of Common Right , that it be always held at our Town of Perth , if it be possible . " Now Robert Bar- clay and many of the other Proprietors , as is well known , were Scotchmen ; and when we ...
... require this one thing concerning the Court of Common Right , that it be always held at our Town of Perth , if it be possible . " Now Robert Bar- clay and many of the other Proprietors , as is well known , were Scotchmen ; and when we ...
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... require , a Circuit was to be held by one of the Justices of the Court in every County . The Judges of the several Courts were authorized to make rules of practice for regulating their proceedings ; and finally , it was ordained , that ...
... require , a Circuit was to be held by one of the Justices of the Court in every County . The Judges of the several Courts were authorized to make rules of practice for regulating their proceedings ; and finally , it was ordained , that ...
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... require , to set that affair in so clear a light , that the half - sighted may see , and the half - witted be convinced of the unreasonableness and absurdity of that objection . The rest can see and understand without my help . " He ...
... require , to set that affair in so clear a light , that the half - sighted may see , and the half - witted be convinced of the unreasonableness and absurdity of that objection . The rest can see and understand without my help . " He ...
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... require . " 1 ―― In the Life of Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor in the reign of Queen Elizabeth we have a striking in- stance of the vigor with which he strove to correct the prolixity of Chan- cery pleadings in his time . In the case of ...
... require . " 1 ―― In the Life of Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor in the reign of Queen Elizabeth we have a striking in- stance of the vigor with which he strove to correct the prolixity of Chan- cery pleadings in his time . In the case of ...
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... requires that from him it should no longer be withheld . The name of Franklin is encircled with such a glo- rious plumage of its own , that it can well afford to have this single borrowed feather plucked from it . Daniel Coxe remained ...
... requires that from him it should no longer be withheld . The name of Franklin is encircled with such a glo- rious plumage of its own , that it can well afford to have this single borrowed feather plucked from it . Daniel Coxe remained ...
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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.