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Ex parte WILSON. [2 Cranch, C. C. 7.]1 Circuit Court, District of Columbia. July Term, 1810. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT—DISCHARGE. The court will not, on motion, discharge a prisoner for debt, who has the benefit of the bounds, because the creditor refuses to pay the daily allowance. Motion by Mr. E. J. Lee, for W. Wilson, to order the marshal to discharge him from the prison-bounds, the creditor having failed to furnish him with his daily allowance, according to the act of congress of 3d March, 1803, § 5 (2 Stat. 237). The allowance was demanded by the marshal on the 25th of June, 1810, and refused. The daily allowance for prisoners in execution for debt, was fixed by a general order of the court, on the 13th of June, 1803. THE COURT refused to make such an order for the discharge of Mr. Wilson in this summary way, because if he has a right to depart the prison-bounds he is at liberty so to do; if he has not, the order of the court would not justify the marshal in discharging him. See Ex parte Wilson, 6 Cranch [10 U. S.] 52. WILSON, Ex parte. See Case No. 894. 1 [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION: HOW “THE GOLD STANDARD OF EVIDENCE” COULD BE WORTH ITS WEIGHT Katherine Schwinghammer, Fingerprint Identification: How "The Gold Standard of Evidence" Could Be Worth Its Weight, 32 Am. J. Crim. L. 265, 265 (2005) 🤔 Could it be more than a figure of speech.

Documents such as a driver's license do not determine what constitutes a person's legal name.9 65 C.J.S. Names § 1. The Trustee relies on the Certificate of Correction and the fact that the Debtor's driver's license spells her last name as Thibault in arguing that that spelling is the “correct” one. But the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (the “SJC”) has explained that documents such as a driver's license do not determine what constitutes a person's legal name. For example, in Clark, the SJC noted that even the name on an individual's birth certificate may not be the individual's “true” name under Massachusetts law, in light of the common law rule. See 846 N.E.2d at 773. And in Sec'y of the Commonwealth v. City Clerk of Lowell, the SJC took care to clarify that to the extent any of its earlier cases had “suggest[ed] that a person has a ‘legal name’ or a name ‘with legal effect,’ different from the name he has lawfully chosen, those suggestions were not necessary to decision.” 366 N.E.2d 717, 722, 373 Mass. 178 (1977) (emphasis supplied). In re Thibault, 518 B.R. 698, 703 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2014)

Documents such as a driver's license do not determine what constitutes a person's legal name.9 65 C.J.S. Names § 1

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Minority is not an actual condition which is shed like a cocoon by a child on his or her reaching a certain age. 43 C.J.S. Infants § 1