State v. Johnston
General Court of Virginia
THIS was a certiorari to the County Court of Baltimore, to remove the proceedings on a motion, that Samuel Johnston, Esquire, be admitted an attorney of the said Court.
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THIS was a certiorari to the County Court of Baltimore, to remove the proceedings on a motion, that Samuel Johnston, Esquire, be admitted an attorney of the said Court. It appears on the record, “ that Mr. Johnston having applied to the Court of Baltimore county, in August, 1784, to be admitted as an attorney of that Court, Luther Martin, Esq. the Attorney-General, objected to his admission, and stated to the Court, that the said Johnston, being an inhabitant of the province of Pennsylvania, and residing therein, when the revolution began, and until some time in the year 1778, holding the…
1Opinion of the Court
Superior Courts have at all times been very cautious of extending their jurisdiction or exercising powers never before practised even in cases where the right seems to be acknowledged. Littleton, in his chapter on knight service, says, no action can be brought on the. statute of Merton for disparaging an heir, because none ever had been brought. Brooke says, that a writ of error will run to the five ports; but in Dyer, 376. because none ever had gone, it was determined that none ever should go. In Year Book, 39 Hen. VI. a royal protection to the king’s proctor at Rome was disallowed, because…
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