Ex parte Sprout
This text of 22 F. Cas. 1010 (Ex parte Sprout) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
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discharged the prisoners on the ground of the defects in the warrant of commitment. It not being on oath, no time of imprisonment limited, and not UDder seal.
THE COURT refused to commit them again on the affidavit of the master, because they doubted whether the authority was not limited to a justice of the peace.
But THE COURT was clear that the voyage contracted for was not ended until the discharge of the cargo and ballast, if required.
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