7 F. Cas. 306
U.S. District Court
Decided July 1, 1811
U.S. District Court · decided 1811-07-01
This was a motion to the court for a ha-beas corpus to bring up the slaves of Joseph Deane, who had been committed by the may- or of the town for the supposed violation of a by-law prohibiting the… Held: was at some distance north of the. range of lots on Montgomery street.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1811-07-01
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1960
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¶1was .of opinion that the common
¶2•council had no authority to make by-laws operating beyond the limits of the town, as described in the acts of 1790 and 1798, and that the jurisdiction of the mayor was confined to the same limits, and that the corporation could not enforce its by-laws by corporal punishments.