 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 956 pages
...rules 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...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 752 pages
...grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual from 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 for... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 784 pages
...him, if a 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...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... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 830 pages
...pardoning power 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...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 construed to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Law - 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...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 ; if the pardon be equitable,... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 264 pages
...punishment destroyed 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 652 pages
...rules 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...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official act of [ * 161 ] the executive magistrate, delivered to- the * individual... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 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...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." § 683. Sir William Blackstone, in the fourth Book of his Commentaries, speaks of pardons as an absolute... | |
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A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted 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. 
