Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit June 26, 1980, 1252, Docket 80-2081 (Francesco Caltagirone v. George v. Grant, United States Marshal)

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United States · · · 26-06-1980

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Infamous among the abuses wrought in the eighteenth century by unbounded royal power were

lettres de cachet.

Through them, the king could free — or imprison — upon no more a showing than monarchal whim.

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