 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 pagina’s
...Congress, in 1774, declares that " the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes •...colonization, and •which they have, by experience, found to be applicable to their social, local, and other circumstances."* This is the uniform language... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 pagina’s
...declared (Art. iii.), that the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the common law of England, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their social and other... | |
 | District of Columbia - 1857 - 788 pagina’s
...their duty " to revise and simplify," consisted, in the language of the Maryland declaration of rights, of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration to Maryland, and "which by experience have been found applicable to local and... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 732 pagina’s
...congress of 1774 claimed to be entitled to the benefit, not only of the common law of England, but of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of thcir colonization, and which they had by experience respectively found to be applicable to their several... | |
 | Charles Robinson - 1862 - 440 pagina’s
...the Colonies, asserted that the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England ; and that they are entitled to the benefit of such of the...applicable to their several local and other circumstances. It would be singular enough, if in their framing a national government, the common law so justly dear... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 548 pagina’s
...peers of the vicinage according to the course of that law." They further resolved, " that they were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes...existed at the time of their colonization, and which thev have, by experience, respectivelv found to be applicable to their several and local circumstances."... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pagina’s
...entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their colonisation, and which they have, by experience, respectively found...applicable to their several local and other circumstances. "7. That these, his majesty's colonies, are likewise entitled to all the immunities and privileges... | |
 | Michael Thompson - 1863 - 472 pagina’s
...house officers. March 2, 1739, sec. 88, 1 Stat., G95. BRITISH STATUTES. The inhabitants of Maryland entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their emigration, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances,... | |
 | John Fulton - 1864 - 582 pagina’s
...vicinage, according to the course of that law ; " " that they were entitled to the benefit of such statutes as existed at the time of their colonization,...respectively found to be applicable to their several and local circumstances ; " and that their ancestors, at the time of their immigration, were " entitled... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 pagina’s
...first continental congress, in 1774, declared, among other things, ' that the respective colonies were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes...at the time of their colonization, and which they had by experience, found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.' 1 Journal... | |
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Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances. 
