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Their number was double that of Van Buren's detachment, but he attacked them fearlessly, and in the fight was mortally wounded by an arrow which entered his body in front, just above the sword belt, and came through the belt behind. The principal chief of the Indians was killed, and the rest fled. Captain Van Buren's men carried him to Corpus Christi, where in a few days he died.
The systematic order, or arrangement by subjects, is not to be recommended for the compilation of a Corpus or of regesta. It is always arbitrary, and leads to inevitable repetition and confusion.
The Roman law, more fertile than the Canon Law in rules applicable to secular disputes, was not seldom resorted to by a later generation of Chancery judges, amid whose recorded dicta we often find entire texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis imbedded, with their terms unaltered, though their origin is never acknowledged.
But he feels himself to be an instrument for the moment of despotic power as opposed to civil rights, and he won't stand what he calls "jaw." Trip up a policeman in such a scramble, and he will take it in good spirit; but mention the words "Habeas Corpus," and he'll lock you up if he can.
She defied the King to remove her. She would try the right with him. While the Great Charter and the Habeas Corpus Act were the law of the land, she would live where she pleased. "And Flanders," she cried; "never! I have learned one thing from my friend the Duchess of Mazarin; and that is never to trust myself in a country where there are convents."
What is now to be done?" "The lady must go ashore, and all these matters can be arranged before a magistrate." "Ay, ay! let her sue out a habeas corpus if she please," added the ready attorney, whom a second survey caused to distrust his first inference. "Justice is blind in England as well as in other countries, and is liable to mistakes; but still she is just.
Fidel, however, took the chaffing without a denial, the padre and Uncle Lance being his two worst tormentors. During the previous visit of the padre, when the chapel was decided on, the order for the finishing material for the building had been placed with the merchant at Shepherd's, and was brought up from Corpus Christi through his freighters.
I haven't been charged." Counselor-at-law Forman whirled on the chief of police. "Is this true?" Without waiting for an answer he said heatedly: "I demand to know what he's charged with. I demand that he be brought before a judge and admitted to bail. I'll have a habeus corpus " Brasher said softly. "It's true we didn't charge him. We want to ask him some questions.
"You have not made your First Communion yet, have you?" "No, Excellency," said the girl. "I shall make it next year." "And you?" the Duchessa asked the boy. "I made mine at Corpus Christi," said the boy, with a touch of pride. The Duchessa turned to Peter. "Do you know, I haven't a penny in my pocket. I have come out without my purse." "How much ought one to give them?" Peter asked.
It also provides that any person arrested or imprisoned on any judgment or decree obtained in any Federal court for duties shall be entitled to the benefit secured by the habeas corpus act of the State in cases of unlawful arrest, and may maintain an action for damages, and that if any estate shall be sold under such judgment or decree the sale shall be held illegal.
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