 | John Raymond Howard - 1910 - 362 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1074 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power, that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special Writs of Assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 pages
...and tbe fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book"; since they placed "the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." This was in February, 1761, in Boston, and the famous debate in which it occurred was perhaps the most... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the. liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say I admit that special writs of assistance, to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 432 pages
...liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law-book"; as a weapon "that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." He then boldly appealed to guarantees of civil liberty, to principles of right, higher than statutory... | |
 | 1919 - 1884 pages
...said: "It [the Kansas statute] is, in effect, a revival of the odious general warrants, which placed the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer, and which long ago received judicial condemnation. To prevent their use and the exercise of such arbitrary... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1920 - 296 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say that I admit that special writs of assistance to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 458 pages
...the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book," since they placed " the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." III. The Exclusion of Wilkes from the House of Commons Dr. Johnson: " Is there not a law, Sir, against... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John, Raymond Lenox Noonan - 1922 - 360 pages
...the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition, being general, is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. I say that I admit that special writs of assistance to search special places, may be granted to certain... | |
 | 1922 - 560 pages
...fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book" ; because, as he said, it placed "the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer." Of this speech John Adams said: "Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition... | |
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It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer. 
