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1779 36 (1779)

handle is hein.ssl/ssvt0061 and id is 1 raw text is: Laws of 1779 LAWS OF VERMONT PASSED DURING THE SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 11-FEBRUARY 26, 1779 AN ACT FOR SECURING THE GENERAL PRIVILEGES OF THE PEOPLE, AND ESTABLISHING COMMON LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION, AS PART OF THE LAWS OF THIS STATE 13 FEB 1779 Forasmuch as the free fruition of such liberties and privileges as humanity, civility and christianity call for, as due to every man, in his place and proportion, without impeachment and infringement, hath been, and ever will be, the tranquility and stability of churches and commonwealth; and the denial or deprival thereof, the disturbance, if not ruin of both: Be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, by the representatives of the freemen of the state of Vermont, in general assembly met, and by the authority of the same, that no man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name stained; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor anyway punished; no man shall be deprived of his wife or children; no man's goods or estate shall be taken away from him, nor any way indamaged, under colour of law, or countenance of authority; unless it be by virtue of some express law of this state, warranting the same, established by the general assembly; or in case of the defect of such law in any particular case, by some plain rule warranted by the word of God. That all the people of the American states within this state, whether they be inhabitants or not, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for this state; in all cases proper for the cognizance of the civil authority and courts of judicature in the same, and that without partiality or delay: and that no man's person shall be restrained or imprisoned by any authority whatever, before the law hath sentenced him thereto, if he can and will put in sufficient security, bail or main- prize for his appearance, and good behaviour in the meantime; unless it be for capital crimes, contempt in open court, or in such cases wherein some express law doth allow of or order the same. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that common law, 36

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