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Excerpt from A Review of the Case of Alexander McLeod: Recently Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York
The court, after considering and applying the English cases in the manner we have stated, and remarking, very justly we have no doubt, that the law of England was the law of New York, until the new habeas corpus act of the state took effect, proceed next to inquire, whether that new statute has worked any enlargement of those powers, beyond what they before possessed.
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