 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - 1912 - 828 σελίδες
...pardon. It seems to me that this attempted answer is insufficient. A pardon "is an act of grace * * * - which exempts the individual on whom, it is bestowed...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." US v. Wilson, 7 Peters 149, 160. The statute under consideration is an act of grace exempting the present... | |
 | 1913 - 1356 σελίδες
...to change the punishment assessed to a less punishment [t] A. pardon, however, is held to be an я« of grace proceeding from the power intrusted with...bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime which he has committed. This act by its provisions provides that after a I»ersou has been legally... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - 1913 - 588 σελίδες
...very accurate knowledge of the underlying principle of the pardoning power and that it is essentially an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...with the execution of the laws, which exempts the particular individual receiving the pardon from the punishment the law prescribes for the crime committed.2... | |
 | William Herbert Page - 1914 - 1166 σελίδες
...12929. A. As to costs, 12929. B. As to being a witness, 12929. I. DEFINITION AND NATURE. A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts, for a crime he has committed: State, ex rel., v. Peters, 43 0. S. 629, IV Longsdorf's Notes, 187. A pardon discharges the individual... | |
 | 1914 - 1338 σελίδες
...from the consequence of a fault or the punishment of crimes; to free from penalty. * * * A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." In United States v. Wilson^ 7 Pet. 150, 8 L. Ed. 640, the effect of a pardon is thus stated: "A full... | |
 | Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz - 1914 - 996 σελίδες
...been awarded."94 In the United States supreme court we find Chief Justice Marshall said: "A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It releases the offense and obliterates it... | |
 | Hermann Nothnagel, Michael Joseph Rossbach - 1914 - 732 σελίδες
...should be absolutely privileged. A pardon is not an act of justice, it is an act of mercy, exempting the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.15 It would seem a sounder view to hold such a petition qualifiedly privileged only. " Spalding... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 816 σελίδες
...of his duties by the statute. (McBlair v. US, 19 id., 528.) ' * The pardoning power. — A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the individual for... | |
 | 1915 - 982 σελίδες
...principle the court deduced and declared this conclusion: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from 5 the power intrusted with the execution of • the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private [italics ours] though official act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the... | |
 | 1915 - 884 σελίδες
...accurately the nature of a pardon. "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." United States r. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150, 159 (1833). This statement has been quoted as an accurate one... | |
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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. 
