Reported judgments, filterable by court, jurisdiction, area of law, outcome and year. 57 decisions from 24 courts — and where a court is missing, that is a gap in what we have licensed, not a court that decides nothing.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1779 · 1 U.S. 41
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SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. APRIL TERM, 1779. Respublica v. Cornelius Sweers. Indictment for fraud. Fhe United States became a body corporate from the period of their associatio…
Philadelphia Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1 September 1778 · 1 U.S. 39
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*Respublica v. John Roberts. Evidence in treason. Under the act of 1 MV, there must be an actual enlistment of the person persuaded, to constitute the oifence of treason. Although …
Philadelphia Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1 September 1778 · 1 U.S. 35
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Respublica v. Abraham Carlisle. Indictment for treason. Indictment for treason: The overt act laid was taking a commission from the enemy: evidence was admitted to show that the de…
Philadelphia Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1 September 1778 · 1 U.S. 33
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Respublica v. Malin. Treason. Where the defendant had joined a corps of American troops, supposing them to be British, it was held, that evidence of words spoken by him to prove th…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1776 · 1 U.S. 29
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Keppele v. Williams. Practice. — Continuance. It is a contempt, to pocket the venire. A Venire had issued, and the jury was summoned: the plaintiff forbade the sheriff to bring the…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1776 · 1 U.S. 28
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Township of Fallowfield v. Township of Marlborough. Poor. — Order of removal. It is not necessary that it should appear on the face of an order of removal, that there was an examin…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1776 · 1 U.S. 23
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Wheeler, Assignee of Baynton, v. Hughes, Executor. Defalcation. The assignee of a bond takes it at his own peril, and stands in the place of the obligee, so as to let in every defa…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1776 · 1 U.S. 22
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Judge: Before Chew, Chief Justice, and Lawrence, Justice.
* APRIL TERM, 1776. Before Chew, Chief Justice, and Lawrence, Justice. Steiner v. Fell and others. Removal of cause. When the defendant takes out a habeas corpus to remove the caus…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 September 1774 · 1 U.S. 20
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Judge: Before Chew, Chief Justice, Willing and Morton, Justices.
SEPTEMBER TERM, 1774. Before Chew, Chief Justice, Willing and Morton, Justices. Hurst v. Dippo. Demurrer to evidence. The list of first purchasers under William Penn, admitted in e…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 24 August 1773 · 1 U.S. 18
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* APRIL TERM, 1773. Chester Nisi Prius, August 24, 1773. The Lessee of the Proprietary v. Ralston. Ejectment. — Evidence.—Practice. After giving evidence of title in a third person…
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1 April 1773 · 1 U.S. 19
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APRIL TERM, 1773. The Lessee of Biddle v. Shippen. Evidence. — Li/mitation. A map of the town, of Germantown, made about thirty years back, ruled not to be good evidence. The stat.…
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