State v. Rum
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
On the fourth day of April, 1868, D. Warren Cogswell, of Henniker, in said county, filed a libel in the office of the clerk of the supreme judicial court for said county; and thereupon a warrant was issued, directed to the sheriff of any county in this State, or his deputy, reciting said libel, and requiring him to seize and take into his custody the property named in said libel, and safely detain the same until legally disposed of.
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On the fourth day of April, 1868, D. Warren Cogswell, of Henniker, in said county, filed a libel in the office of the clerk of the supreme judicial court for said county; and thereupon a warrant was issued, directed to the sheriff of any county in this State, or his deputy, reciting said libel, and requiring him to seize and take into his custody the property named in said libel, and safely detain the same until legally disposed of. That said warrant was duly executed on May 2,1868; and due notice of said libel was given to the owner of said property, and all others interested, to appear at…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
Any spirituous liquors kept for sale in violation of law, with the casks, &c., containing the same or used in the sale thereof, may be seized, upon a warrant issued by a justice or police court, founded upon a complaint charging the same, and upon due proceedings may be adjudged forfeited, and disposed of according to law. Gen. Stats., ch. 99, sec. 23.
Chapter 249 of the General Statutes prescribes in general terms the mode of procedure to procure a condemnation of any personal property which is forfeited for any violation of law.
The court found that the liquors proceeded against here were…
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