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Atrocious judges. Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression.

Title: Atrocious judges. Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell ... With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.
Author: Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861.
Publication: New York and Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856.

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432 p.; 19 cm.

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Passmore Williamson was imprisoned for contempt of court in refusing to answer to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by the U.S. District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, commanding him to produce the bodies of Jane, Daniel, and Isaiah Johnson, slaves of John H. Wheeler. He petitioned the Supreme court of Pennsylvania for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied.

Contents

Introduction.--Roger Le Brabancon.--Robert Tresilian.--Thomas Billing.--John Fitzjames.--Thomas Fleming.--Nicholas Hyde.--John Brampston.--Robert Heath.--Robert Foster.--Robert Hyde.--John Kelynge.--William Scroggs.--Francis North.--Edmund Saunders.--George Jeffreys.--Robert Wright.--Appendix.

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XAS (Campbell, J. C. Atrocious judges)

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28011693

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487776

Author

Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861.

Title

Atrocious judges. Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell ... With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.

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New York and Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856.

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Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865.

Williamson, Passmore. Defendant

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XAS (Campbell, J. C. Atrocious judges)

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