1452 examples of writs in sentences

Lamson had bought a medical practice at Bournemouth in 1880, but very soon after writs and executions were issued against him.

To be brief, Academico, writs are out for me to apprehend me for my plays; and now I am bound for the Isle of Dogs.

How can you say that, retorted the opposition, when you, better than most men, know the line of despotic legal precedents from the Ship Money down to the Writs of Assistance?

The ruling of the Superior Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in the case of the Writs of Assistance, presaged the American Revolution; and the Dred Scott decision was the prelude to the Civil War.

It had been suffered to fall into abeyance; but suddenly in 1761 the government issued Writs of Assistance or search-warrants, authorizing customs officers to enter private stores and dwellings to find imported goods, not necessarily known but when even suspected to be there.

James Otis, the lawyer from Barnstable on the shores of Cape Cod, who had opposed the Writs of Assistance, "led the van of these patriots,an impassioned orator, incapable of cold calculation, now foaming with rage, and then desponding, not steadfast in conduct, yet by flashes of sagacity lighting the people along their perilous ways, combining legal learning with speculative opinion."

James Otis had made a great speech, which Adams heard, on what were called "writs of assistance," giving power to the English officers of customs in the Colony to enter houses and stores to search for smuggled goods.

He is always bringing writs of error, like a pettifogger, and reversing of judgments, though the case be never so plain.

Oct. 9.] had been experienced from the absence of the great seal, the application of which was held by the lawyers necessary to give validity to several descriptions of writs.

To remedy the evil, the Commons had voted a new seal;[a] the Lords demurred; but at last their consent was extorted:[b] commissioners were appointed to execute the office of lord keeper, and no fewer than five hundred writs were sealed in one day.

On the authority of the doctrine laid down in the law books; 2. Because all writs of summons abate by the king's death in parliament; 3. Because the parliament is called by a king regnant, and is his, the king regnant's, parliament, and deliberates on his business; 4. Because the parliament is a corporation, consisting of king, lords, and commons, and if one of the three be extinct, the body corporate no longer exists.

Negroes were also detained by writs obtained by preferring against them false charges.

'Assisa' or 'Assize' is also taken for the court, place, or time at which the writs of Assize are taken.

Another catches a fine frenzy from the "Shares," and regulates his day's movements "the very air o' the time" by their importand hence he dreams of gold and gossamer, or sits torturing his imagination with writs and executions that await adverse fortune.

Negotiation after negotiation between the king and the Parliament had failed, and the king had issued writs for a Parliament to assemble at Oxford.

On that day none of the courts of justice sat; and on the next, Whitelocke, one of the commissioners of the Great Seal, says, "The commissioners met, but did not think fit to do any business, or seal any writs, because of the King's death.

SEE Aigler, Ralph W. Complete Texas writs of error table, 6th ed.

COMPLETE TEXAS WRITS OF ERROR TABLE.

The municipality of Dijon commonly issued their writs of arrest in this form"Such and such a person shall be arrested, and his wife, if he has one!"

Writs were issued for elections under the new Constitution, and the date of the first assembly of the new Parliament was fixed for October.

Odds, writs and warrants!

No, by my soul; they drew their writs, and left the lazy justice of the peace to settle the right of it.

Odds, writs and warrants!

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

Writs of Assistance.

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