 | United States. Congress. House - 956 sidor
...power intrusted with the 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 of England is thus summed up in 13 Petersdorf's Abridgment, page 78: "The King's right to pardon... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 720 sidor
...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. 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 sidor
...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." 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 sidor
...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 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.... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 sidor
...power entrusted 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. 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 sidor
...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 entrusted...execution of the laws, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he hae committed. It is the... | |
 | Charles Henry Lee - 1863 - 264 sidor
...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 he has committed." * * * But, "a pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential, and delivery is not... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 652 sidor
...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...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 sidor
...usual conciseness and clearness, gave a most admirable definition of a pardon. He says: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted...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." § 683.... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 570 sidor
...power entrusted 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." § 683. Sir William Blackstone, in the fourth Book of his Commentaries, speaks of pardons as an absolute... | |
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A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted 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. 
