 | United States. Congress. House - 956 páginas
...individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a erime he has committed. * * It is a deed, to the validity of which, delivery is essential;...and delivery is not complete 'without acceptance. It may be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered, and we have discovered no power in a court... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1846 - 494 páginas
...; and per Marshall, Chief Justice, in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, " A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may be rejected; and if rejected there is no power to force it on him." Ina more recent case —... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 720 páginas
...felony is several in each offender, and cannot be joint. Dyer, 34, pi. 21 ; 2 Hawk. PC c. 37, § 24. #A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential, and the delivery is not complete without acceptance. United States v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150.& (G) In what... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 páginas
...this respect from other facts: no legal principle known to the court will sustain such a distinction. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered... | |
 | 1863 - 832 páginas
...delivery had been procured by letters forged by the friends of the consignee. The prisoner is remanded. 1. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. If rejected by the person to whom it is tendered there is no power in a court to force it on him, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Lee - 1863 - 264 páginas
...whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." * * * But, "a pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered. It may be supposed that no being condemned... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - 1864 - 652 páginas
...this respect from othor facts ? We know of no legal principle which will sustain such a distinction. A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered... | |
 | Ohio. Superior Court (Cincinnati), William Disney - 1867 - 644 páginas
...Ab. 292, Pardon, E. It follows, then, to quote the opinion of Judge Marshall, already referred to, that " a pardon is a deed, to the validity of which...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered; and if it be rejected, we have discovered... | |
 | 1868 - 836 páginas
...quote in that opinion also from common law writers on the subject of pardon and its effect, and say : A pardon is a deed to the validity of which delivery...essential, and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered... | |
 | 1869 - 832 páginas
...quote in that opinion also from common law writers on the subject of pardon and its effect, and say : A pardon is a deed to the validity of which delivery is essential, and deliver}' is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered... | |
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A pardon is a deed, to the validity of which delivery is essential ; and delivery is not complete without acceptance. It may then be rejected by the person to whom it is tendered ; and if it be rejected, we have discovered no power in a court to force... 
