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  Ex parte Merryman
The chief justice then inquired of the officer whether he had brought with him the body of John Merryman, and on being answered that he had no instructions but to deliver the return, the chief justice said: 'General Cadwalader was commanded to produce the body of Mr.
It is, therefore, very clear that John Merryman, the petitioner, is entitled to be set at liberty and discharged immediately from imprisonment.
For, at the time these proceedings were had against John Merryman, the district judge of Maryland, the commissioner appointed under the act of congress, the district attorney and the marshal, all resided in the city of Baltimore, a few miles only from the home of the prisoner.
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  The Descendants of Richard Merryman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Merryman was born in 1680, was christened on 18 Oct 1680 in Deerhurst, Glos, died in 1680 and was buried on 6 Dec 1680 in Deerhurst, Glos.
Edmund Merryman was born in 1743, was christened on 14 Jan 1743 in Elmstone Hardwicke, Glos, died in 1805 and was buried on 2 Jul 1805 in The Leigh, Glos.
John Merryman was born in 1753 and was christened on 11 Oct 1753 in Deerhurst, Glos.
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 Ex parte Merryman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lieutenant John Merryman, an officer in the Maryland cavalry, was part of the escort that ejected Union General Wynkoop and his Pennsylvanian forces from Maryland.
Merryman was at about this time also arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry.
Its legal argument holding that Congress alone may suspend the writ is noted for reiterating the opinion of John Marshall and the court in Ex Parte Bollman (1807) and was recently restated by the Supreme Court in Hamdi v.
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 DESCENDANTS OF MICAJAH MERRIMAN
MICAJAH MERRYMAN was born in Maryland on 25 Apr 1775 and died at the age of 72 in Tuscarawas County, Ohio in 1847.
JOHN MERRYMAN (Micajah) was born on 26 Jul 1823 in Cadiz Twp., Harrison County, Ohio, son of Micajah and Sophie (Snyder) Merryman.
JOHN SHERODIN MERRYMAN (Alexander/John/Micajah) was born in Harrison County, Ohio in Jun 1880, son of Alexander W. and Amanda Elizabeth (Cree) Merryman.
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 Merryman
At the start of the war, John Merryman, a prominent socialite, was in Baltimore (an area still in the Union) training recruits for the Confederacy.
Merryman’s lawyer requested a writ of habeas corpus for the circuit judge for Maryland (Chief Justice Roger Taney).
For, at the time these proceedings were had against John Merryman, the district judge of Maryland, the commissioner appointed under the act of congress, the district attorney and the marshal, all resided in the city of Baltimore, a few miles only from the home of the prisoner.
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 Treasures of Loch Raven
The property passed to Nicholas Merryman of Elijah, who was shown as the owner of a sawmill in the 1818 tax ledger.
In 1787, John Merryman advertised that he had been authorized to dispose of the property of Benjamin Rogers and Charles Rogers, and offered to sell a valuable farm of 530 acres with a grist and a sawmill.
The lower Merryman Mill was 1.2 miles due south of Britton's Mill as measured on the pre-flooding (1910 Maryland Geological Survey topographic map).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Merryman,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Merryman, ex parte MERRYMAN, EX PARTE [Merryman, ex parte] case decided in 1861 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney sitting as a federal circuit judge in Baltimore, Md. John Merryman, a citizen of Maryland, was imprisoned by the U.S. army on suspicion of favoring the Confederacy.
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., Kathleen Merryman Column.
The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., Kathleen Merryman column: Handmade miracle on McKinley.
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 The Supreme Court Historical Society
However, James Marshall, John's brother, said in an affidavit that the commissions for the plaintiffs had been properly sealed and signed (he had actually been delivering the commissions that fateful midnight and had those for Harper and Hooe in his possession but just had not been able to get them to the appointees).
One of the persons apparently engaging in such activities was John Merryman, the president of the Maryland Agricultural Society and an officer in that state's militia.
Merryman applied to the Circuit Court in Baltimore, which was run by Chief Justice Taney, for a writ of habeas corpus.
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 Albert M. Merryman
His grandfather, John Merryman, was a farmer and married a member of the Smith family whose record also connects them with the days of Indian fighting along the Ohio.
Merryman is a Blue Lodge Mason, for many years served as secretary of his lodge, and was long either treasurer or secretary of Kinsley Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
Merryman was born near Morris, Illinois, in 1865 and was reared in Aberdeen, Mississippi, being educated under a governess until she came to Kansas.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/kansas/genweb/archives/1919ks/m/merrymam.html   (1581 words)

  
 NYU School of Law - Journal of International Law and Politics: Issues - Volume 31 - Merryman
For John H. Merryman, three distinct periods of modern history have given rise to significant cultural property issues that remain unresolved today.
Merryman briefly discusses the current ideologies and discourses on the legal effect that the authorities of one nation ought to give to the restrictions of another nation with respect to the export of privately held cultural property.
The major “voices” for Merryman include: (1) The International Free Trade Discourse; (2) The Discourse of the Acquisitors; (3) The Discourse of the Cultural Internationalists; (4) The Source Nation Discourse; and (5) The Discourse of the Archaeologists.
www.law.nyu.edu /journals/jilp/issues/31/a.html   (381 words)

  
 Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Professor Merryman's claim that the theory of stare decisis is not considered in civil law is contradicted by the judicial practice of many civil law countries.
Professor Merryman has two different, contradictory ways of describing the role of judges in the civil law world, descriptions that are relevant to the question of who creates the law and consequently who will have influence on whether stare decisis is or is not accepted.
Professor Merryman contends that civil law judges are al denied the power to temper the rigor of a rule, that all nonlegal considerations must be excluded from the law in the interest of certainty, and that considerations of justice must be exclude for the same reason.
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 John Henry Merryman (Stanford University) All publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Merryman, John Henry; Clark, David S. ; Haley, John O..
Merryman, John Henry; Clark, David S. Friedman, Lawrence M. Law and social change in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America: A handbook of legal and social indicators for comparative study
Merryman, John Henry; Elsen, Albert E. Law, ethics, and the visual arts: Cases and materials
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 Ex Parte Merryman by R. B. Taney, Chief Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1861, May 25 — John Merryman, of Baltimore county, Md., was arrested, charged with holding a commission—as lieutenant in a company avowing its purpose of armed hostility against the Government; with being in communication with the rebels, and with various acts of treason.
Merryman at once forwarded a petition to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, reciting his arrest, and praying for a writ of habeas corpus and a hearing.
For at the time these proceedings were had against John Merryman, the District Judge of Maryland — the commissioner appointed under the act of Congress — the District Attorney and the Marshal, all resided in the city of Baltimore, a few miles only from the home of the prisoner.
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 Obits_M_pg.2
Walter Leach of Caldwell; John Harrison of Caldwell and William Harrison of Athens.
She was preceded in death, in addition to her parents, by her husband, John A. Mills Sr., on Feb. 18, 1990; a daughter, Darlene Danielson; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; a sister, Edna Burgess; and a brother, Herbert A. Shaffer Jr.
A daughter of John and Elizabeth Osborne Hewetson, she was born on W. Main St., residing in St.
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 The History of Hayfields Country Club
John Merryman inherited the farm from his uncle and is credited with bringing the first cattle to Maryland
John Merryman was 1st Lieutenant in the Baltimore County Horse Guards during the Civil War and under orders burned the Northern Central Railroad bridges between Cockeysville and Parkton to prevent northern troops from being brought to Baltimore.
John Merryman was elected treasurer of Maryland in 1870 and "assisted materially in the pushing forward of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad." He also was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1874.
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 SPLCenter.org: Freedom and Dissent
One of those arrested was John Merryman, a farmer, militia member and Confederate sympathizer who lived outside Baltimore.
Merryman was suspected in a conspiracy to sabotage railroads, but never charged.
Merryman's detention was illegal because, in Taney's view, only Congress had the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=318   (1060 words)

  
 Ancestry of Augustus Balch - Generation 7
In the mid 1800's John was one of five or six ship builders in Trescott, building the 165 ton brig Mary E. Balch in 1846, the 242 ton brig Jeremiah Fowler in 1853, and the 700 ton ship Troy in 1854, among others.
John Balch resided at Bangor, Me., until about 1820, when he met with reverses in business, which caused him to remove to Trescott, where he continued to live.
John Merryman, born 1771 in Harpswell, Cumberland, Maine; died November 05, 1827 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.
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 Ancestors
John was born on June 12, 1754 at Fayetteville, Cumberland
John Burton was a Captain in the Revolution.
John was born in 1730 at Henrico Co,
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 http://www.lib.iup.edu/spec_coll/mg102.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Merryman finally received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1968.
Merryman was one of the founders for the Society of Educational Reconstruction, and one of the initiators for the formation of Pennsylvania Foundations of Education Society.
During his years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Merryman was a Co-Advisor for the Student P.S.E.A. House of Delegates, Counselor for Kappa Delta Pi, and he was a member of the President's Cabinet.
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 Descendants of John MERRYMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John, the father of Charles, is thought to been related to Richard Merryman who also settled in Lancaster Cp VA and lived close by to John.
The trail of evidence for the identity of Mary, wife of Charles Merryman starts with the court of 12 Nov 1672 in Lancaster Co in an action concerning the estates of Nicholas HALE and Mary Hale.
For further data on Charles Merryman in Virginia, researchers are encouraged to look at the Court Order books for Lancaster County, VA that have been extracted by the Sparacios.
www.rootsweb.com /~mdannear/firstfam/merryman   (494 words)

  
 SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS
The case was that of John Merryman, a Southern sympathisizer who had organized soldiers to burn bridges in Maryland.
Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: The petition of John Merryman, of Baltimore county and state of Maryland, respectfully shows, that being at home, in his own domicile, he was, about the hour of two o'clock a.
The chief justice then inquired of the officer whether he had brought with him the body of John Merryman, and on being answered that he had no instructions but to deliver the return, the chief justice said: 'General Cadwalader was commanded to produce the body of Mr.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg152 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Jacob Junior Cox [Parents] was born on 7 Jul 1725 in St Pauls Parrish Baltimore Md. He died in 1798 in St John St George's Parrish Baltimore Co,Maryland.
Merryman Cox [Parents] was born on 22 Jan 1722/1723 in St Pauls Parrish,Baltimore Maryland.
Elizebeth Merryman [Parents] was born about 1702 in Baltimore,Fredrick County,Maryland.
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 POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
The Merryman case stemmed for the suspension of rights in Maryland and was brought to bar to determine whether the President or the Congress had the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
In Ex parte Merryman Taney claimed that only Congress could suspend the privilege of the writ and that the President, though sworn to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," had broken the laws himself.
John Huang, a representative of the Indonesian based Lippo Group, an official at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Commerce Department, raised over $4 million for the Democratic Party primarily from Asian-Americans, some of whom were used as conduits for foreign funds.
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 Ex Parte Merryman (1861) - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Merryman favored the South in the Civil War.
Merryman asked for a writ of habeas corpus so that his case would be tried in a civilian court.
Merryman was imprisoned and applied for a writ of habeas corpus.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Merryman, ex parte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MERRYMAN, EX PARTE [Merryman, ex parte] case decided in 1861 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney sitting as a federal circuit judge in Baltimore, Md. John Merryman, a citizen of Maryland, was imprisoned by the U.S. army on suspicion of favoring the Confederacy.
The commanding general refused to respect this action, alleging that President Lincoln had authorized him to suspend the writ.
The discourse of law in time of war: politics and professionalism during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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 Pedigree of the Family of Merriman
John Maryman was Rector of Clonfeakle, co. Armagh, in 1551, and became Bishop of Down and Connor in 1568.
John Meryman, probably son of Randall, is also mentioned in the Town Records of Marlborough in 1580.
Sonne of Gregory Merryman of Whytney in the County of Oxon Weav.
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 Cantor Arts Center - Archived Press Release
It is the gift of New York attorney Daniel Shapiro and his wife, Agnes Gund, and is given in honor of Emeritus Professor John Merryman on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
According to the donors Daniel Shapiro and Agnes Gund, the dedication of The Sieve of Eratosthenes in honor of Emeritus Professor John Merryman is especially appropriate.
The donors wish to honor Merryman "by thanking him for all he has done for us and everyone interested in art by giving a gift in his honor to Stanford of a work of an artist that John thought was sorely missing on campus.
www.stanford.edu /dept/suma/news_room/archived_acquisitions_sieve.html   (639 words)

  
 Constitutional Problems Under Abraham Lincoln, Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Merryman, spoke out in support of the Confederacy during the Civil War and was a strong advocate of the Southern cause.
Margaret A. Blanchard, in her article "Free Expression and Wartime: Lessons from the Past, Hopes for the Future", locates the Merryman arrest within President Lincolns controversial suspending of the writ of habeas corpus, the constitutional province that protects American citizens from groundless arrest.
Merryman's lawyers lawyers sought to have him released on the grounds that he was being illegally held without formal presentation of charges."
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