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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rex T. Deipard, 7 T. B. 736. ? Rule. law wbich warrants it. Kennedy v. Favor, 14 Gray (Mass.), 200, 202. And although, in some of the States, authority to proceed in respect to liquors, without a warrant iu the first instance, is expressly given by statute, it is usually accompanied by the provision that when the seizure is so made, the property seized is to be safely kept for a reasonable time until a warrant can be procured; and it is held that, if the officer neglects to obtain a warrant within such time, he will be liable as a trespasser. Kent v. Willey, 11 Gray (Mass.), 368; Western . Carr, 71 Maine, 356; In re Swan, 150 United States, 637, 649. SECRETARY OF STATE. EEX v. DESPARD. (1798.) RULE. A Secretary of State has, at common law, the power to issue a warrant of commitment for treasonable practices; and where by Act of Parliament the operation of the Habeas Corpus Act is suspended in cases of commitments by warrant of a Secretary of State for (inter alia) treasonable practices, a person committed for treasonable practices, in general terms, cannot be bailed. Bex v. Despard. 7 Terra Reports, 736-744 (4 R. R. 563). Secretary of State. ? Treasonable Practices. A commitment for treasonable practices is legal. 736] The defendant was brought up in the custody of the governor of the House of Correction, by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus issued out of this Court, upon the motion of Fergusson, who now moved that the warrant of commitment returned and produced in Court might be read; which being done it appeared that the defendant had been committed for treasonable practices by a warrant of the Duke of Portland, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. An Act was passed in the present session of Parliament, 38 Geo. III. c. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217042598 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217042597 |
| Weight | 2.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.40 In |
| List Price | $41.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 632 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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