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1. Atrocious judges. Lives of judges infamous as tools of tyrants and instruments of oppression. Compiled from the judicial biographies of John lord Campbell. With an appendix, containing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard Hildreth.

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432 p. 19 cm., Passmore Williamson was imprisoned for contempt of court in refusing to answer to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by the U.S. District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, commanding him to produce the bodies of Jane, Daniel and Isaiah Johnson, slaves of John H. Wheeler. He petitioned the Supreme court of Pennsylvania for a writ of habeas corpus, which was denied., and Introduction.--Roger Le Brabancon.--Robert Tresilian.--Thomas Billing.-- John Fitzjames.--Thomas Fleming.--Nicholas Hyde.--John Brampston.--Robert Heath.--Robert Foster.--Robert Hyde.--John Kelynge.--William Scroggs.--Francis North.--Edmund Saunders.--George Jeffreys.--Robert Wright.--Appendix.
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