 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1814 - 730 pages
...different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
 | T. B. Howell, Esq. - 1816 - 804 pages
...different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it ii incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 724 pages
...different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it ii incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
 | Slavery - 1828 - 390 pages
...judgment, may serve to evince : — " The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created,... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - History - 1837 - 514 pages
...by Lord Mansfield in Sommersett's case was, that slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law ; and, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to report it but positive law. The same doctrine... | |
 | Joseph Story - Conflict of laws - 1841 - 966 pages
...by Lord Mansfield in Somerset's case, was, that slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law; and it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. The same doctrine... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1851 - 716 pages
...Fannur. facto, a freeman. " The state of slavery, said he, is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law — it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." 20 Stale Tr. 80. . The same... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 90 pages
...pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." (Howell's State Trials, vol.... | |
 | Slavery - 1853 - 380 pages
...some crime." — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773. " Slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." — Judgment in the great... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence *it was ever... | |
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