Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-09-17
LAW ITEMS.
Compiled for the Indiana STATE Sentinel.


A SLAVE CASE We learn from the Frankfort (Ky) Com
nweab that the Supreme Court of Ohio, Judges Wood
ard blanchard presiding have. in the consideration OF
question Involving the constuiionay of such Of the laws
Of Ohio designed TO fugitive slaves from
arrest Ieafmed d, ci-ion Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States by which il was declared that the
Of slave either by himself agent, may pursue arrest
aud return him the State from which lie fed without the
aid Of the state auhoriyI aud that all legislation which
iutcrfeTes such unconstitutional
and void all legislation the subject being exclusively
vested in G. cs Under this decision, from Ken
tuky, named Aimitage, who under arrest in Ohio,
charged With kidnapping Negro, whom he had seized as
runaway slave, has teen discharged from custody.
RE-HEARiNe.-Thcre is practice in the English Court
Chauceiy-uot resting any statute decision
ealed aud sometimes favored by the Chancelorsof allow
irg be e-agucd afer decree has been made
the certificate Of counsel that there for alleging
IN the dtcet. An attempt made the other day,
il Boston, 10 obtain rehearng Of copyright case, in the
Circuit Court OF the United States but Justice Woodbury. de-
MED the application sanctioned neither by precedent
br utility and he referred TO decision OF The late justice
Story, not yet published, taking the ground.
IN URAEcE has been decided by Judge Wood uTy, in
Of Marine insurance in Boston, that distinct and sep
ate losses the vessel could not be added together TO
make up FIVE per cent and that the assured could not
unless he proved single uss To that amounts but
that was question ior the Juy whether the losses mere
were dnet 81 hoi that ~he'e one loss was consequent
upon another however remote in time it TO be taken
part Of the aneceden loss aud both amounted to FIVE
cent, the assured would recover.
CHALLENGED JURORS Chief Justice IIombower, in the
Essex ~ j. oyer and Tcrmner, has adopted the following
mde for asceranins the tness Of challenges in empan-
Bellng jury:
The Challenger being required to reduce his grounds of
objection TO Ing the challenged party replies in the
way, aud tail issue joined, when witnesses were
examined, aud judgment given, &C., in regular suit
This athei tedious pr cccdin, calculated prevent
Jurors being set aside for trivial anoe which has
caused The difficulty Of prccuing uics in New York and
other places in recent important cases"
RUMsELLERs AND THE LAW LIBEL-At recent uiaI
FOL libel in Taunon Mass The counsel fol- defendant raised
the question whether the plaintiffs acknowledged hlbtua
violation Of law in selling ting liquors without
license did not deprive him of all legal remedy for whatever
lbe might be uttered Of him in respect 10 his illegal BUSH
ness The Court instructed the jury that they found the
pantIl was engaged in selling quoS IN violation OF the
Stluie and that the alleged libel published o him solely
regard to his agency in that business then he could not
maintain the action the article complained Of
itself beOGs and the defendants had failed prove true
The verdict II The jury in accordance with these III
siruciions.
RIGHTS WoMEN.-In the st. Louis Court of Common
Pleas Judge Blair has decided that where devised the
and profits Of lands to his wife during her natural life
cidt tChOOd the words widDwhOoi imposed
d"h h restraint OF marriage Whleh Is inconsistent WIN me
policy OF the law, and therefore, weld The estate oil the
who hd mared again. held to be estate for
life absolute The intention Of the deyiso gathered from
the Will, evidently was, that h vile, ii she survived him.
should have an estate for ie she remained single and
that she should forfeit it by a second rage
STEAMBOATS, LIABLE DEBr-The Supreme Court of
Ohio has decided that the purchaser Of steamboat with
owners makes the boat subject debts
boat may be seized and sold by The editO in the hands Of
such purchasers ~ it'll notice.
have decided that the County Of Philadelphia shall pay the
owners Of the Catholic Female Seminary destroyed during
The amount awarded by the jury tia before The County
Court 1t appealed, and the Supreme Cvult confirmed
the decision of the Court below.
A Je1r-DIcIoUs DEcrsIoS.-The Hamilton Court of Com
Pleas has annued the ordinance Of the City Council 0f
Cincinnati, prohibiting the IsTaees from trading the
Christian Sabbath.
0TThe New York Legislature at its last session passed
the following bIiel but important law:
An Act ia relation 10 imprisonment Of attorneys
upon execution.
J. IN all actions upon for moneys received by
any attorney, by any other male person fducidry
capacity the defendant defendants shall be liable
plisonment in the same manner in actions for wrongs
Gran anonymous writer observes: "Abusc would be as
public aifaiIs in pTvae if every director
sger liable with his purse make good and
Jures incurred by his conducts which would be the
in small communities of six miles squae-where the
ory who were 10 benefit by the good management and lose
by the bad had ,he direction. When passing through
the outskirts V the French empire, by Isia Damatia
they were introducing the Napoleon code and lawyers
we've the only eomplanes calling out against the injustice
and cruelty ct the code of procedure which made them
liable fr all their want Of formality biunders, faults
for which under the Old jurisdiction Of Countries they
would have been rewarded By flesh fees consequence Of
tiial."
JURI- STATE OF VrRoINIA.-The General
Court oi Vnsria has dccded-twrlve judges theein
The PaikebuIg ldEa ping case that the jurisdiction Of the
Stale OF Virginia extends 10 the actual cater line Of
Ohio river, at The particular time of any This
line Of COURSE fixed but shifts according the rise
OF fall Of water from aeshets or low water.
BENEFIT OF CLrReY--It seems that a learned judge
(Buckntr) has decided that the old English law granting
Tic benefit Of ceIgy, exemption from capital punish
Hent 10 those who could e their Haaes hch long
been obsolete EngIand, in force in kentucky far
regards slaves At the recent Of the Barren Cir
cult Court Bud. slave. convicted of a rape upon an
unmarried white girl His counsel theIeupon moved the
court To eXted to he prisoner the Benefit OF Clergy The
question argued by the prisoners counsel and The Com
monwealhs attorney The judge after holding the que
under advsemen ol three days sustained the notion
and rendered judgment that the prisoner be the
hand have tty-nIne aheS, and then be discharged This
sentence executed, aud Bid delivered The agent Of
his master, no Immediately him Mississippi here
the latter resides.
BANK SrocK TAx-The Maryland Court of Appeals has
decided the of the State +. Mayhem president
Of the FaImcrs ard Planters Bank that the Legislature has
require the Presidents Of the Incorporated
Bank, IN This State 10 Withhold from dividends Of the
stockholders The tax imposed by the State their respective
stock.
DIvoRcE-The Maryland legislature at its last session
passed bill dv@cng Elizabeth Booth Of Delaware om
marriage ceremony peIfOmed in language unknown
TO the young lady, and therefore declared fraud aud
such, null and VOID.
35-A steamboat captain recently fined $50 in the
United States District Couit at New Orleans violation
Of the post office law in carrying letter that city.
A LARGE FrE.-EIuIbeit and Johnson of New York. re-
cevcd lately the pIincey fee Of $780, 600 from their
clients The magnitude Of this ice for single suit per-
haps unexampled IN that STATE.
FRANKS OF AN EXCITED ELEPHANr.-An elephant
belonging to menagerie at Lockport, New York,
escaped on Saturday last and being enraged in con-
sequence OF some one having given him tobacco
ceaed an his food, created no little alarm by his
FRANKS. He first attacked span of horses, killing
one and inangling il in shocking manner. The
keeper afterwards came up, and calling him by name,
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