Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania: Passed Between the Years 1682 and 1700, Preceded by Duke of York's Laws in Force from the Year 1676 to the Year 1682, with an Appendix Containing Laws Relating to the Organization of the Provincial Courts and Historical Matter, Volumen2L.S. Hart, State Printer, 1879 - 614 páginas |
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... taken from any Town Shore by any Person whatsoever without Allowance under the hands of the Constable and two Overseers upon the penalty of Six- pence for every Shovell full so taken , unless they be such Stones as they had lay there ...
... taken from any Town Shore by any Person whatsoever without Allowance under the hands of the Constable and two Overseers upon the penalty of Six- pence for every Shovell full so taken , unless they be such Stones as they had lay there ...
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... taken in the Trespass , then to pay as before said , and not otherwise , Moreover the owner of the said Cattle Sheep or Hoggs shall pay just Cost for the Nour- ishment of them so Impounded till they find Bail to Answer or shall Compound ...
... taken in the Trespass , then to pay as before said , and not otherwise , Moreover the owner of the said Cattle Sheep or Hoggs shall pay just Cost for the Nour- ishment of them so Impounded till they find Bail to Answer or shall Compound ...
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... taken Fees for the Court . For returning Appeals to the Assizes with all the Circumstances whereof the Court of Sessions hath taken cognizance towards the defraying of Court Charges . S. D. 68 For the Coppy of an Appeal and Causes S. D. ...
... taken Fees for the Court . For returning Appeals to the Assizes with all the Circumstances whereof the Court of Sessions hath taken cognizance towards the defraying of Court Charges . S. D. 68 For the Coppy of an Appeal and Causes S. D. ...
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... taken from the person Licenced for his or theire good behaviour . In all Places within this Goverment the English and all others shall keep their Cattle from destroying the Indians Corne in any ground where they have right to plant and ...
... taken from the person Licenced for his or theire good behaviour . In all Places within this Goverment the English and all others shall keep their Cattle from destroying the Indians Corne in any ground where they have right to plant and ...
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... taken for any of the Rates or Assessments aforesaid the Constable shall distraine Distress for non- Goods or Cattles if they may be had and if no Goods , then payment of rates . Lands or Houses If neither Goods nor Lands can be had ...
... taken for any of the Rates or Assessments aforesaid the Constable shall distraine Distress for non- Goods or Cattles if they may be had and if no Goods , then payment of rates . Lands or Houses If neither Goods nor Lands can be had ...
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1693-See Appendix 1700-See Bioren's Laws Abrogated by William according action appear appointed Assizes authority afores Authority aforesaid Bail Benjamin Fletcher bill Castle cause Chap charges Chester commission Constable convicted Council and Assembly County Court Court of Equity Court of Sessions debt declared Defendant Delaware Deputy election England execution fees forfeit freemen further Enacted Generall Governor granted hath hereby inhabitants John Joseph Growden Judges Judgment Jury Justices King and Queen land Magistrates matter ment month offence officers Overseers party peace penalty pence person or persons Petition of Right Philadelphia plaintiff pounds Proprietary Provided Province and territories Province of Pennsylvania Province or territories Provincial Council publick Punishment Quarter Sessions record respective County Seal Servants Sheriff shillings Supream Court territories thereof therein thereunto tion Towne unto warrant whatsoever William and Mary William Markham William Penn writs year-See Chapter
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Página 87 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their Just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their Just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 97 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world, and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall in no ways be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion or practice in matters of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled at any time to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place, or ministry whatever.
Página 87 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them ; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Página 241 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Página 461 - WHEREAS our trusty and well-beloved Subject William Penn, Esq ; Son and Heir of Sir William Penn deceased, (out of a commendable Desire to enlarge our English Empire, and promote such useful Commodities as may be of Benefit to us and our Dominions, as also to reduce the savage Natives by gentle and just Manners, to the love of civil Society and the Christian Religion...
Página 85 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Página 379 - ... so many and such good and lawful men of his bailiwick (as well within liberties as without) by whom the truth of the matter in the premises shall be the better known and inquired into.
Página 339 - First, it was, among other things, enacted, that all actions of account and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandize between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty...
Página 462 - Penn, his heirs and assigns, all that tract or part of land in America, with the islands therein contained, as the same is bounded on the east by Delaware River, from twelve miles distance northward of New Castle town, unto the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude...
Página 86 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three, any government is free to the people under it, (whatever be the frame,) where the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.