 | United States. Congress. House - 956 páginas
...rules prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...execution of the laws, which exempts the individual upon whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." The law... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 720 páginas
...repealed, by omitting from the subsequent annual land-tax acts the clause imposing it.] PARDON. ft A PARDON is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. 160 ; Bouv. LD ht Pardons are general, as when an act of amnesty is passed forgiving all persons... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 páginas
...pardoning power of the Governor. The act does not attempt to confer any power upon the board to pardon. "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150. Section 6 expressly declares that nothing in the act shall be construed to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 536 páginas
...proceeding from • the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the indiI vidual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a erimo he has committed. It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 páginas
...impounded. PARDON, crim. law, pleading. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. SC Rep. 160. 2. Every pardon granted to the guilty is in derogation of the law ; if the pardon... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 páginas
...person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he hae committed. It is the private, though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the... | |
 | Charles Henry Lee - 1863 - 264 páginas
...punishment destroyed or diminished." SEC. 218. A pardon may also be specially pleaded in bar 'of the trial. "A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, and exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 652 páginas
...rules prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...committed. It is the private, though official act of [ * 161 ] the executive magistrate, delivered to- the * individual for whose benefit it is intended,... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 588 páginas
...definition of a pardon. He says: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." § 683. Sir William Blackstone, in the fourth Book of his Commentaries, speaks of pardons as an absolute... | |
 | 1869 - 820 páginas
...necessary. "A pardon" says Chief Justice MARSHALL, in the case of United States v. Wilson, 1 Peters 150, " is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." Worcester defines pardon as being " the remission of a fault or crime, or of a penalty ; forgiveness... | |
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A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 
