Accordingly, when Judge Grier resigned his position as a member of the Supreme Court, Mr. Stanton's appointment to the vacant Associate Justiceship was at once urged upon President Grant.
The contrast between these observations and the disheartened words in which Jay declined renomination to the chief justiceship in 1801 gives perhaps a fair measure of Marshall's accomplishment.
In 1791, John Rutledge, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, resigned that office for the Chief Justiceship of South Carolina.
But he held the chief-justiceship only for a year and a half, when he was raised to the summit of the bar, and sat down lord chancellor.
In 1807, when Napoleon declared the throne of Portugal vacant, King John VI.
For the first thirty years of his chief-justiceship his life was a singularly happy one.
The bar of the Supreme Court during his chief-justiceship was the most brilliant which the United States has ever known.
Jay's brief tenure of the chief-justiceship of the United States Supreme Court gave little opportunity to test his real ability as a jurist.
In 1801 the chief-justiceship dropped into his lap when Livingston went to France and Lansing became chancellor, just as the chancellorship would probably have come to him had Lansing continued a candidate for governor.
Is well set up, but ere ye part, Ile ride you And spur your reverend Justiceship such a question, As I shall make the sides of your reputation bleed, Trulie I will.
The vacant Chief Justiceship is to be conferred on John Marshall, one time General, afterwards ambassador to X.
Adams's description of Marshall's qualifications for the Chief Justiceship is by way of contrast to his own.
It surely was not Marshall, who was in nobody's mind for the Chief Justiceship when Jay was named.
Saurin refuses both the Chief Justiceship and the Irish Peerage, both which were offered to sweeten the pill.
The justiceship of the peace, which ought to be a kind of rural and local institution, and which for some time preserved that character, speedily degenerated.
The justiceshipof the peace, having been made a round of the judiciary ladder, became accessible to those civilians or agents who only asked to serve the government.
In the nineties of the seventeenth century, as we shall see, there was a man in the chief justiceship who dared to nullify the law of James I.
In any case, from the moment he assumed the chief justiceship he set himself directly against the punishment of witchcraft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "justiceship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
