 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...(1776) declared (Art. iii.), that the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the common law of England, and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their social and other... | |
 | District of Columbia - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...their duty " to revise and simplify," consisted, in the language of the Maryland declaration of rights, of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration to Maryland, and "which by experience have been found applicable to local and... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...congress of 1774 claimed to be entitled to the benefit, not only of the common law of England, but of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of thcir colonization, and which they had by experience respectively found to be applicable to their several... | |
 | Charles Robinson - State bonds - 1862 - 440 pages
...that the respective Colonies are entitled to the common law of England ; and that they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English Statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization, and which they have by experience respectively found to be applicable to their several... | |
 | Michael Thompson - Law - 1863 - 472 pages
...officers. March 2, 1739, sec. 88, 1 Stat., G95. BRITISH STATUTES. The inhabitants of Maryland entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their emigration, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances,... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1864 - 856 pages
...have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof. Art. 3. That the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the...benefit of such of the English statutes as existed on the fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and which, by experience, have been found... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...continental congress, in 1774, declared, among other things, ' that the respective colonies were entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their colonization, and which they had by experience, found to be applicable to their several local and other... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - United States - 1865 - 580 pages
...tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law. 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their colonization, and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several... | |
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Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances. 
