...required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. "14. That every freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers and property ; all warrants therefore to search suspected places or to apprehend any suspected...

...Mitchell, for claimant. WH Sawyer and Burlelgh & Adams, for the State. WALLACE, J. "Every subject hath a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches...person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. Therefore all warrants to search suspected places or arrest a person for examination or trial. In prosecutions...

...1 (Mass. 1854). 17 The fourteenth article of the Declaration of Rights declares that "every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches...warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation, and if the order in the warrant...

...Constitution, June 16th, 1790. These may be seen in 1 Elliott's Deb. 370, declaring, in so many words, " that every person has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers, or his property," and warrants to search without oath and seizures by general warrant are "oppressive,"...

...territory of this Republic he shall be free. Security from Search and Arrest. 10. Every person has the right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and effects ; and no warrant shall issue, except on probable cause, supported by...

...Thorpe 2455. 15) Massachusetts Declaration of Rights of 1780, Art. XIV, 3 Thorpe 1891: "Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if...

...Hampshire Constitution, part 1, article 19, giving every citizen "a David Souter Report Page -5right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his papers, and all his possessions." Although similar to the federal Fourth Amendment, the...

...Constitution in New York and Virginia, for example, each recommended an amendment stating, "That every freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures. . . ." W. Cuddihy, Search and Seizure in Great Britain and the American Colonies, pt 2, p 571, n 129,...

...provisions regulating arrests, searches, and seizures. The constitution provided that every subject ought "to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person . . . and all his possessions" and more specifically that arrests could be made only under sworn warrants...

...nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. XIV. That every, freeman has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his papers, and property ; all warrants, therefore, to search suspected places, orseize any freeman, his...