 | Isaac S. Mulford - 1848 - 520 pages
...justice were to be administered in the name of her Majesty, and the Crown of Sweden. The Governor must decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden, and be governed by these also, in all other things. He was empowered to bring to obedience and order,... | |
 | New Sweden. Upland court - 1860 - 218 pages
...of which was modelled after that of the latter place ; the most important office being the Schout, a functionary whose duties comprehended those of sheriff...controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden."1 This, although but a glimpse, is sufficient to show that no special code was 1 Hazard's Annals,... | |
 | New Sweden. Upland court - 1860 - 542 pages
...settlement upon our shores, as connected with this period of our annals. Printz was instructed " to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs, and usages of Sweden; and that, as regarded police, government, and justice, they were to be administered in the name of... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1879 - 638 pages
...himself grossly, he must punish him in a convenient manner." In bis instructions, he is commanded " to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs, and usages of Sweden, and in all other things he will adopt and follow, all the laudable manners, customs, and usages of... | |
 | John Hill Martin - 1883 - 350 pages
...the Swedes, in 1642, at New Gottenburg, now Tinicum, by Governor John Printz, who was instructed to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden. What Courts he established and what the modes of procedure therein, can only be conjectured by what... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 882 pages
...1'fintz, who was appointed director of the Swedish colony on the Delaware in Ki43, he was ordered to decide all controversies "according to the laws, customs, and usages of Sweden." Penn. Archives, 2d ser. v. 783. The records of the Swedish courts were lost in a Stockholm fire. Interesting... | |
 | Edward Pease Allinson, Boies Penrose - 1887 - 468 pages
...Swedish governor, Printz — the most important state document of this period — he is commanded " to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs, and usages of Sweden ; to bring to obedience and order, by necessary and convenient means, the mutinous and refractory persons... | |
 | Samuel T. Wiley - 1894 - 518 pages
...AND JUDICIAL LISTS. COURTS. Swedish justice was dispensed atTinicum by Gov. John Printz, who was to "decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden." The Dutch records throw but little light on the legal tribunals which they established on the Delaware.... | |
 | John Fiske - 1901 - 400 pages
...powers of the governor are set forth in the aforesaid instructions to Printz. He was commanded " to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden ; to bring to obedience and order, by necessary and convenient means, the mutinous and refractory persons... | |
 | Benjamin Matthias Nead - 1907 - 32 pages
...were first regularly administered within the present limits of Pennsylvania. He was instructed: "to decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden." He was not given a special code of laws, or form of tribunal for the government of the colony and for... | |
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decide all controversies according to the laws, customs and usages of Sweden. 
