Court Opinion

ID: 84973
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Date Created: 2010-04-28 15:59:32+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:23.808823
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11 U.S. 107
7 Cranch 107
3 L.Ed. 284
HAWTHORNE, CLAIMANT OF THE BRIG CLARISSA CLAIBORNEv.THE UNITED STATES.
February 20, 1812

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Present All the Judges.

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THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the District Court, at New Orleans, condemning the Brig Clarissa Claiborne, for violating a law of the United States.

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HARE, Moved for a certiorari upon a suggestion of diminution of the record, in not sending up the depositions of the witnesseses.

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MARSHALL, Ch. J.

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What prevents you from producing the witnesses here, or taking their depositions de novo.

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HARE, Suggested a doubt, whether cases for violation of the Embargo, are cases of admiralty, or of prize jurisdiction.

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However, on a subsequent day he moved for, and obtained a commission to take the depositions of wtnesses at New Orleans, to be used on the trial in this Court, at the next term.

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A like commission was granted in the case of Williams and Armroyd, at this term.