In re White’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““Essex Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery. September Term, A. D., 1902. Essex County, to-wit: — The grand jurors of the State of New Jersey, in and for the County of Essex, upon their oath, Present, that Thomas Bruce, late of the City of Newark, in the County of Essex aforesaid, on the twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at the City of Richmond, in the State of Virginia, did marry and have for his wife, one Louisa Howard, and afterwards while the said Thomas Bruce was so married to the said Louisa Howard, did on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, with force^ and arms at the City of Newark aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the court, unlawfully marry and take to wife one Mary Cecilia Hannon, the said Louisa Howard then and there being still alive and the lawful wife of the said Thomas Bruce, contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the State, the government and dignity of the same.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bruce v. Rayner

2. ““Nor upon principle and in the absence of controlling authority should the statute be construed as authorizing an inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the person in the tribunals of the state in which he is found.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bruce v. Rayner