Ex parte Merryman, the Glossary

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1. 96 relations: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Amnesty, Andrew Porter (Civil War general), Annapolis, Maryland, Antonin Scalia, Appropriations bill (United States), Article One of the United States Constitution, Bail, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore riot of 1861, Benson John Lossing, Bruce Catton, Bush River (Maryland), Chief Justice of the United States, Constitution of the United States, Contempt of court, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Edward Bates, Ex parte Bollman, Ex parte Milligan, Executive privilege, Federal Judicial Center, Federal judiciary of the United States, Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, Frank Key Howard, George Cadwalader, George William Brown (mayor), Gunpowder River, Habeas corpus, Habeas Corpus Act 1679, Habeas corpus in the United States, Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863), Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Harold Hyman, Henry May (American politician), Horace Binney, In-chambers opinion, James M. Wayne, John Catron, John Marshall, John Merryman, John Paul Stevens, Judiciary Act of 1789, Legal process, Library of America, Mark E. Neely Jr., ... Expand index (46 more) »

2. 1861 in United States case law
3. Maryland in the American Civil War
4. Secession crisis of 1860–61
5. Suspension Clause case law
6. United States circuit court cases

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Amnesty

Amnesty is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." Though the term general pardon has a similar definition, an amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense.

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Andrew Porter (Civil War general)

Andrew Porter (July 10, 1820 – January 3, 1872) was an American army officer who was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.

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Appropriations bill (United States)

In the United States Congress, an appropriations bill is legislation to appropriate federal funds to specific federal government departments, agencies and programs.

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Article One of the United States Constitution

Article One of the Constitution of the United States establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress.

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Bail

Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore County, Maryland

Baltimore County (locally: or) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore riot of 1861

The Baltimore riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Ex parte Merryman and Baltimore riot of 1861 are Maryland in the American Civil War and Secession crisis of 1860–61.

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Benson John Lossing

Benson John Lossing (February 12, 1813 — June 3, 1891) was an American historian, known best for his illustrated books on the American Revolution and American Civil War and features in Harper's Magazine.

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Bruce Catton

Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War.

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Bush River (Maryland)

Bush River is a tidal estuary in Harford County, Maryland, located about 15 mi (24 km) northeast of Baltimore.

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Chief Justice of the United States

The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Contempt of court

Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the crime of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice, and dignity of the court.

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Don E. Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.

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Edward Bates

Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 – March 25, 1869) was an American lawyer, politician and judge.

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Ex parte Bollman

Ex parte Bollman, 8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 75 (1807), was a case brought before the United States Supreme Court. Ex parte Merryman and Ex parte Bollman are suspension Clause case law and United States Constitution Article One case law.

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Ex parte Milligan

Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that the use of military tribunals to try civilians when civil courts are operating is unconstitutional.

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Executive privilege

Executive privilege is the right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications under certain circumstances within the executive branch and to resist some subpoenas and other oversight by the legislative and judicial branches of government in pursuit of particular information or personnel relating to those confidential communications.

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Federal Judicial Center

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts.

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Federal judiciary of the United States

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.

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Fort McHenry

Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Ex parte Merryman and fort McHenry are Maryland in the American Civil War.

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Francis Scott Key

Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and poet from Frederick, Maryland, best known as the author of the text of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner".

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Frank Key Howard

Frank Key Howard (October 25, 1826 – May 29, 1872) (also cited as Francis Key Howard) was an American newspaper editor and journalist.

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George Cadwalader

George Cadwalader (May 16, 1806 – February 3, 1879) was a general in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and American Civil War.

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George William Brown (mayor)

George William Brown (October 13, 1812 – September 5, 1890) was an American politician, judge and academic.

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Gunpowder River

The Gunpowder River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (from Medieval Latin) is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful.

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Habeas Corpus Act 1679

The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an Act of Parliament in England (31 Cha. 2. c. 2) during the reign of King Charles II.

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Habeas corpus in the United States

In United States law, habeas corpus is a recourse challenging the reasons or conditions of a person's confinement under color of law.

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Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863)

The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, (1863), entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases, was an Act of Congress that authorized the president of the United States to suspend the right of habeas corpus in response to the American Civil War and provided for the release of political prisoners.

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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the U.S. government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority.

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Harold Hyman

Harold Melvin Hyman (July 24, 1924 – August 6, 2023) was an American historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era and the William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice University.

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Henry May (American politician)

Henry May (February 13, 1816 – September 25, 1866) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.

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Horace Binney

Horace Binney (January 4, 1780 – August 12, 1875) was an American lawyer, author, and public speaker who served as an Anti-Jacksonian in the United States House of Representatives.

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In-chambers opinion

An in-chambers opinion is an opinion by a single justice or judge of a multi-member appellate court, rendered on an issue that the court's rules or procedures allow a single member of the court to decide.

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James M. Wayne

James Moore Wayne (1790 – July 5, 1867) was an American attorney, judge and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867.

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John Catron

John Catron (January 7, 1786 – May 30, 1865) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1837 to 1865, during the Taney Court.

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John Marshall

John Marshall (September 24, 1755July 6, 1835) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835.

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John Merryman

John Merryman (August 9, 1824 – November 15, 1881) of Baltimore County, Maryland, was arrested in May 1861 and held prisoner in Fort McHenry in Baltimore and was the petitioner in the case "Ex parte Merryman" which was one of the best known habeas corpus cases of the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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John Paul Stevens

John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010.

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Judiciary Act of 1789

The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress.

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Legal process

Legal process (sometimes simply process) is any formal notice or writ by a court obtaining jurisdiction over a person or property.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Mark E. Neely Jr.

Mark E. Neely Jr. (born November 10, 1944, in Amarillo, Texas) is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular.

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Martial law

Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.

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Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis.

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Maryland in the American Civil War

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Maryland, a slave state, was one of the border states, straddling the South and North.

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Michael Burlingame

Michael A. Burlingame is an American historian noted for his works on Abraham Lincoln.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it.

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New-York Tribune

The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley.

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Nonacquiescence

In law, nonacquiescence is the intentional failure by one branch of the government to comply with the decision of another to some degree.

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Obiter dictum

Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural, obiter dicta) is a Latin phrase meaning "other things said",Black's Law Dictionary, p. 967 (5th ed. 1979).

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Political Science Quarterly

Political Science Quarterly is an American double blind peer-reviewed academic journal covering government, politics, and policy, published since 1886 by the Academy of Political Science.

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Posse comitatus

The posse comitatus (from the Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator of peace – typically a reeve, sheriff, chief, or another special/regional designee like an officer of the peace potentially accompanied by or with the direction of a justice or ajudged parajudicial process given the imminence of actual damage – to suppress lawlessness, defend the people, or otherwise protect the place, property, and public welfare.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Richard Bennett Carmichael

Richard Bennett Carmichael (December 25, 1807 – October 21, 1884) was an American politician from Maryland.

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Roger B. Taney

Roger Brooke Taney (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.

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Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States from 1864 to his death in 1873.

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Sidney George Fisher

Sidney George Fisher (March 2, 1809 – July 25, 1871) was a Philadelphia lawyer, farmer, plantation owner, diarist, political essayist and occasional poet.

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Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799June 26, 1889) was an American businessman and politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and served as United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Sydney George Fisher

Sydney George Fisher (September 11, 1856 – February 22, 1927) was a United States lawyer and historian, and is best known for his work The True History of the American Revolution.

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Taney Arrest Warrant

The Taney Arrest Warrant is a conjectural controversy in Abraham Lincoln scholarship.

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The Day (New London)

The Day, formerly known as The New London Day, is a local newspaper based in New London, Connecticut, published by The Day Publishing Company.

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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics is a 1978 nonfiction book by the American historian Don E. Fehrenbacher, published by Oxford University Press.

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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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Thomas Holliday Hicks

Thomas Holliday Hicks (September 2, 1798February 14, 1865) was a politician in the divided border-state of Maryland during the American Civil War.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Attorney General

The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States.

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United States circuit court

The United States circuit courts were the intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system from 1789 until 1912.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.

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United States District Court for the District of Maryland

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland (in case citations, D. Md.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Maryland.

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United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter

United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter, 2 Hawy. Ex parte Merryman and United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter are 1861 in United States case law, Secession crisis of 1860–61 and United States circuit court cases.

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United States Marshals Service

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States.

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United States Secretary of War

The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.

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United States Volunteers

United States Volunteers also known as U.S. Volunteers, U.S. Volunteer Army, or other variations of these, were military volunteers called upon during wartime to assist the United States Army but who were separate from both the Regular Army and the militia.

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University of Pennsylvania Law Review

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, formerly known as the American Law Register, is a law review published by an organization of second and third year J.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Vi et armis

Trespass vi et armis was a kind of lawsuit at common law called a tort.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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William F. Giles

William Fell Giles (April 8, 1807 – March 21, 1879) was a United States representative from Maryland and later a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

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William H. Keim

William High Keim (June 13, 1813 – May 18, 1862) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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William H. Seward

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.

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William Matthews Merrick

William Matthews Merrick (September 1, 1818 – February 4, 1889) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, a United States representative from Maryland and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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William Rehnquist

William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney and jurist who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986.

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William W. Morris

William Walton Morris Jr. (August 31, 1801 – December 11, 1865) was an American soldier and a career officer in the United States Army.

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Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate.

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Writ

In common law, a writ (Anglo-Saxon gewrit, Latin breve) is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction; in modern usage, this body is generally a court.

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Writ of attachment

A writ of attachment is a court order to "attach" or seize an asset.

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See also

1861 in United States case law

• Ex parte McQuillon
• Ex parte Merryman
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 65
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 66
• United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter

Maryland in the American Civil War

• Army of the Valley
• Baltimore Plot
• Baltimore riot of 1861
• Battle of Monocacy
• CSS Teaser
• Denmead Foundry
• Eastern theater of the American Civil War
• Ex parte Merryman
• Fort Marshall
• Fort McHenry
• Harney, Maryland
• Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area
• Henry Shoemaker Farmhouse
• Hessian Barracks
• History of St. Mary's College of Maryland
• History of the Maryland Militia in the Civil War
• Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area
• Lamon's Brigade
• Lansdowne Christian Church
• Loudon Park Cemetery
• Maryland Constitution of 1864
• Maryland Line (CSA)
• Maryland in the American Civil War
• Maryland, My Maryland
• Mason–Dixon line
• Monocacy National Battlefield
• National Museum of Civil War Medicine
• Point Lookout State Park
• President Street Station
• Rich Hill (Bel Alton, Maryland)
• Special Order 191
• The Rossborough Inn
• USS Constellation (1854)
• Unconditional Union Party

Secession crisis of 1860–61

• 1860 Democratic National Conventions
• 1860 Republican National Convention
• 1860 United States presidential election
• Baltimore riot of 1861
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Camp Jackson affair
• Confederate States peace commission
• Cooperationists
• Cornerstone Speech
• Corwin Amendment
• Crittenden Compromise
• Crittenden–Johnson Resolution
• David Walker (Arkansas politician)
• East Tennessee Convention
• East Tennessee bridge burnings
• Ex parte McQuillon
• Ex parte Merryman
• Fire-Eaters
• Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1861
• Judah P. Benjamin
• List of signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession
• Louisiana secession
• Mississippi Secession Ordinance
• Missouri secession
• Moses Cohen Mordecai
• Nehemiah Magee House
• Nickajack
• Ordinance of Secession
• Peace Conference of 1861
• Presidential transition of Abraham Lincoln
• Price–Harney Truce
• Signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession
• South Carolina Declaration of Secession
• Star of the West
• Texas secession movements
• Town Line, New York
• Towson United Methodist Church
• United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter
• Virginia Secession Convention of 1861
• Wheeling Convention

Suspension Clause case law

• Boumediene v. Bush
• Ex parte Bollman
• Ex parte Endo
• Ex parte Merryman
• Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr

United States circuit court cases

• Corfield v. Coryell
• Ex parte Merryman
• In re Ah Yup
• Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Co. v. Stout
• Stettinius v. United States
• United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman

Also known as Ex Parte Merriman.

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