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1787 344 (1787)

handle is hein.ssl/ssny0373 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF 11F STATE OF NEW-YORK, PASSED 13Y THE LEGISLATURE AT THEIR TENTH SESSION. CHAP. 1. AN ACT concerning the rights of the citizens of this State. PASSED the 2601 of January, 1787. Be it enaced y the Peop/e of the State of Xew York represented in Senate and Assembly and it is heirely enacted and declared It' the authorit, of the same. All author- Firs/, That no authority shall, on any pretence whatsoever be exer- ity derived cised over the citizens of this State but such as is or shall be derived from state from and granted by the people of this State. Right of Second, That no citizen of this State shall be taken or imprisoned or property be disseised of his or her freehold or liberties of free customs or ont- Rlt 1er- JonaIllb, lawed or exiled or condemned or otherwise destroyed, but by lawful arty. judgment of his or her peers or by due process of law. Thhd That no citizen of this State shall be taken or imprisoned for any offence upon petition or suggestion unless it be by indictment or presentment of good and lawful men of the same neighbourhood where such deeds be done, in due manner or by due process of law. Id. FIotrtith That no person shall be put to ansver without presentment before justices, or matter of record, or due process of law according to the law of the land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in law and holden for error. Id. Fifth 'T'hat no person, of what estate or condition soever shall be taken or imprisoned, or disinherited or put to death without being brought to answer by due process of law, and that no person shall be put out of his or her franchise or freehold or lose his or her life or limb, or goods and chattels, unless he or she be duly brought to answer and be forejudged of the same by due course of law and if any thing be done contrary to the same it shall be void in law and holden for none.

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