 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.  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee - Page 656by Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Benjamin James Lea, Jere Baxter, Charles Theodore Cates, George Wesley Pickle, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1906Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 720 pages
...repealed, by omitting from the subsequent annual land-tax acts the clause imposing it.] PARDON. ft A PARDON is an act of grace, proceeding from the power...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. 160 ; Bouv. LD ht Pardons are... | |
 | 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...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." US v. Wilson, 7 Pet. 150. Section 6... | |
 | 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...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official, act... | |
 | 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 individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he hae committed. It is the private, though official act... | |
 | 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...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is the private, though official act... | |
 | 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 individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." ยง 683. Sir William Blackstone, in the... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 820 pages
...necessary. "A pardon" says Chief Justice MARSHALL, in the case of United States v. Wilson, 1 Peters 150, " is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." Worcester defines pardon as being "... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...some trespass done, or some other just cause, were lawfully impounded. PARCUS (Lat.). A park. PARDON. An act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 7 Pet. 160. Every pardon granted to the... | |
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