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In the United States Oyer and Terminer was the name once given to courts of criminal jurisdiction in some states, including Delaware, [3] Georgia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. New York had courts of Oyer and Terminer for much of the 19th century, but these courts were abolished by a change in the state constitution, effective in 1896. The New ...
De Longchamps, 1 U.S. (1 Dall.) 111 (Pa. O. & T. 1784), [1] was a case resulting from the "Marbois Affair," heard by the Pennsylvania Court of Oyer and Terminer at Philadelphia. State Court Decisions in the United States Reports
Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall [note 1] c. 1639 – May 21, 1707 was a judge for the Court of Oyer and Terminer, a special court established in 1692 for the trial and sentence of people, mostly women, for the crime of witchcraft in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the Salem Witch Trials. He is most famous for his resignation from the court ...
Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (1802-1910) Federal courts located in Pennsylvania. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (headquartered in Philadelphia, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the United States Virgin Islands)
Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery (1802-1910) Federal courts located in Pennsylvania. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (headquartered in Philadelphia, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the United States Virgin Islands)
The "old sea bank", built in the medieval era to protect part of The Fens from flooding A medieval ditch and bank, constructed for flood defence in West Sussex. Commissions of sewers, originally known as commissions de wallis et fossatis (Law Latin: "commissions of walls and ditches [or dikes]") [1] were English public bodies, established by royal decree, that investigated matters of land ...
Following their defeat at Stamford Bridge, the Percy brothers were arraigned before a commission of Oyer and Terminer at York. This commission bound them over for massive sums; 8,000 marks payable to Salisbury, and including fines towards his countess and sons, to a total of 16,800 marks; Griffiths describes this as Salisbury's 'reckoning' of ...
When the Court of Oyer and Terminer convened at the end of May, the total number of people in custody was 62. [54] Cotton Mather wrote to one of the judges, John Richards, a member of his congregation, on May 31, 1692, [55] expressing his support of the prosecutions, but cautioning him: