 | United States - 1898 - 928 σελίδες
...ami tho Army Regulations, etc., sew the chapters so entitled. 1 The pardtmini/ pun-er.—A. pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law milirts for a erime he has committed. It is the private though oMicial act of tho executive magistrate.,... | |
 | David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1206 σελίδες
...61 Tex. 193, where it is said: " 'A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power irtrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed.' Bouvier's Law Diet. COMMUTATIVE CONTRACTS. — " Commutative contracts " are contracts in which what... | |
 | Edwin Eustace Bryant - 1901 - 480 σελίδες
...the United States, during the late civil war. Pargoud v. United States, 13 Wall., 156. 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... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - 1901 - 1016 σελίδες
...efface and to cause to be forgotten a crime or misdemeanor; the latter is an act of the same authority, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed. 7 Pet. (US) 160. Amnesty is the abolition and forgetfulness of the offense;... | |
 | M. Zralek - 1903 - 556 σελίδες
...160, Chief Justice Marshall said: "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." At present "the power entrusted with the execution of the laws" in the Philippine Islands is the Civil... | |
 | Minnesota - 1903 - 1096 σελίδες
...definition is often, quoted, defines a pardon .-is "an act of grace proceeding from the power Intrnsted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime lie has committed." United States vs. Wilson, 7 Pet., 438. The question naturally presents itself:... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1903 - 472 σελίδες
...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 intrusted...the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it ie bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private,... | |
 | 1904 - 1004 σελίδες
...Miss. 766, 769, 31 Am. Rep. 386 (citing Knote v. United States, 95 US 149, 24 L. Ed. 442). A pardon Is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...Individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment thé law Inflicts for a crime he has committed. It Is the private official act of an executive magistrate,... | |
 | John Archibald Fairlie - 1905 - 302 σελίδες
...has been defined by Chief Justice Marshall, as "an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed."1 It will be noted that the President's power to pardon is limited to offenses against the... | |
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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. 
