Supreme Court of Pennsylvania July 1, 1863 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex rel. Crosse v. Halloway)

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lowrie, C. J.

There are charters or patents for new inventions, for lands, for grants of corporate privileges, and as commissioners of public affairs, as well as those of pardons; and though all these have a strong likeness as to their form, and to the source whence they immediately proceed, yet they have also some marked points of unlikeness that warn us