 | United States. Congress. House - 956 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 intrusted...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... | |
 | 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 - 1896 - 784 pages
...pardon is to be granted. As was said by Chief Justice Marshall in US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 160: "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...the 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... | |
 | 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 pages
...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 power intrusted...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 536 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 ;... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official act of [ * 161 ] the executive magistrate, delivered... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 588 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
