 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - 1821 - 648 pages
...the evidence in some detail. (Here the Chief Justice recapitulated the evidence before stated.) It is contended on the part of the defendants, that the...follows then that the acts of violence which took place at the election are to be thrown out of the case. But it remains to be considered, whether the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1838 - 818 pages
...although he afterwards tripped up the keeper, and struck him, he was justified in doing so, for he had a right to use as much force as was necessary to liberate himself from the illegal restraint which was put upon his person. Rex v. Thompson (a) is a... | |
 | 1853 - 954 pages
...although he afterwards tripped up the keeper, and struck him, he was justified in doing so, for he had a right to use as much force as was necessary to liberate himself from the illegal restraint which was put *upon his person. Rex v. Thompson, 1 R. &... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - 1870 - 704 pages
...plaintiff's residence, he found the information to be erroneous, he had no right to proceed farther ; that he had a right to use as much force as was necessary to make the arrest, and that the jury should not measure precisely the limit to which he went, nnless... | |
 | 1905 - 534 pages
...esquire's docket. Judge Hitchcock cleared us in the Supreme Court in about 30 minutes, for he said we had a right to use as much force as was necessary to accomplish the object. We learned long afterwards that the negroes settled among Friends and did not... | |
 | 1905 - 540 pages
...esquire's docket. Judge Hitchcock cleared us in the Supreme Court in about 30 minutes, for he said we had a right to use as much force as was necessary to accomplish the object. We learned long afterwards that the negroes settled among Friends and did not... | |
 | 1905 - 512 pages
...esquire's docket. Judge Hitchcock cleared us in the Supreme Court in about 30 minutes, for he said we had a right to use as much force as was necessary to accomplish the object. We learned long afterwards that the negroes settled among Friends and did not... | |
 | Lewis Franklin Johnson - 1916 - 356 pages
...released. The Tollivers claimed that they had warrants for the arrest of Humphrey and Rayburn and that they had a right to use as much force as was necessary to arrest them. In a few months after that Jeff and Alvin Bowling, two of the prominent participants in... | |
 | New Brunswick. Supreme Court, Ward Chipman, John Campbell Allen, Allen Otty Earle, Thomas Carleton Allen, George F. S. Berton, David Shank Kerr, George B. Seely, James Hannay, William Pugsley, George Wheelock Burbidge, Arthur I. Trueman, John L. Carleton, George W. Allen, William Henry Harrison, Ernest Doiron, Douglas King Hazen - 1888 - 692 pages
...distrain -^— the plaintiff's goods, and did distrain them, they were lawfully in his possession, and he had a right to use as much force as was necessary to prevent the plaintiff from re-taking them. He pleads that he did this, — that he gently laid his... | |
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... judge of the Supreme Court who ordered us all turned out by giving $500.00 bail for our appearance before the court when it should set in our county. Some of us had already given $3,000.00 bail on esquire's docket. Judge Hitchcock cleared us in the... 