 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 858 pages
...Philadelphia, on the 5th September, 1774, did, on the 6th of October following, resolve among other things, " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common...peers of the vicinage, according to the course of the common law," &c. * This right of trial by jury,vfhen interpreted by the common law. and by the... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...Rights by the first Congress of 1774 asserted among other things, that the respective colonies were entitled to the common law of England, and more especially...the vicinage, according to the course of that law, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their colonization, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...the British Constitution. Imbued by these, the earliest Continental Congress, in 1774, declared, " That the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage according... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...refer triumphantly to the unanimous resolution of the Congress of seventeen hundred and seventy-four, "that the respective Colonies are ENTITLED to the...the vicinage, according to the course of that law" They could refer to the Constitution of their own State, which ยป Infra, iv. 129. recognized the existence... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...English sovereignty. The declaration of rights made by the first Continental Congress, in 1774, declares that " the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their colonization, and which... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 676 pages
...pervading sentiment in the British colonies. Jackson et al. v. Steamboat Magnolia. That Congress declare that "the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and to the benefit of such English statutes as existed at the time of the colonization, which had been... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 660 pages
...thirteenth articles of our Declaration of Rights were combined, thus: " Resolved, nemine contradicente, that the respective colonies are entitled to the common...the vicinage, according to the course of that law." One cannot but ask how this great, inestimable privilege of trial by peers would have been regarded,... | |
 | Charles Robinson - State bonds - 1862 - 440 pages
...Congress, assembled in October, 1771, in their famous declaration of the rights of the Colonies, asserted that the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England ; and that they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English Statutes, as existed at the time of their... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their content. "5. That the respective colonies are entitled to the...inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinity, according to the course of that law. " 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1863 - 548 pages
...relative to the rights and grievances of the colonies. On the same day, Congress unanimously resolved, " that the respective colonies are entitled to the common...the great and inestimable privilege of being tried bv their peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law." They further resolved, " that... | |
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That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 
