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Slavery in the United States - Page 89
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Civil Code of the State of Louisiana: Preceded by the Treaty of Cession with ...

Louisiana - Civics - 1825 - 804 pages
...second, when the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slave, and the judge shall deem proper to pronounce, besides the penalty established...reach of the power which his master has abused. ART. 193. — The slave who has acquired the right of being free at a future time, is from that tim-G, capable...
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...first, when being only co-proprietor of the slave, his co-proprietor demands the sale, in order to make partition of the property; second ', when the master...reach of the power which his master has abused. " Art. 1 92. The constitution of Mississippi, as we have before seen, empowers the legislature to enact a...
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A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United ...

George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...shall be CONVICTED of cruel treatment of his Slave, AND THE JUDGE SHALL DEEM IT PROPER to pronOUnee, besides the penalty established for such cases, that...the reach of the power which his master has abused." Jirt. 192. The constitution of Mississippi, as we have before seen, empowers the legislature to enact...
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The African Observer, Volumes 1-12

Enoch Lewis - Slave trade - 1828 - 390 pages
...change of masters, but to empower the courts, in certain cases, to direct a sale. This may be done " when the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment...the reach of the power which his master has abused." In this, as well as in several of the insular laws, we find a portion of cruelty infused into the cup...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 2

Louisiana. Supreme Court, Branch Walthus Miller, Thomas Curry - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 662 pages
...second, when the master shall be convicted of cruel'treatment of his slave, and the judge shall deem proper to pronounce, besides the penalty established for such cases, that the slave shall be sold," &c. — La. Code, art. 192. The conviction here spoken of which must precede the order to sell, we...
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the ..., Volume 1

John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...is enacted, that when the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slave, the judge may pronounce, besides the penalty established for such...the reach of the power which his master has abused. Cruelty to animals is an indictable offence. A defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor for tying the...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 10

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1852 - 688 pages
...sale. " When the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slaves, and the judge shall deem proper to pronounce, besides the penalty established for such cases, that the slave be sold at public auction, in order to place him out of the reach of the power which the master has...
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An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of Slavery

Albert Barnes - Slavery - 1846 - 422 pages
...make partition of the property ; second, where the master shall be CONVICTED of cruel treatment of the slave, AND THE JUDGE SHALL DEEM IT PROPER to pronounce,...order to place him out of the reach of the power which the master has abused." — Art. 192. This law, however, must be in almost all cases a practical nul-...
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Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its ..., Volume 1

Charles Elliott - Slavery - 1850 - 358 pages
...proper to allow it; two conditions that can rarely be found to exist. The words of the act are : " When the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment...the reach of the power which his master has abused." 8. The laws preventing emancipation in general, and restraining it in cases in which it is allowed,...
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Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its ..., Volume 1

Charles Elliott - Slave trade - 1851 - 376 pages
...When the master shall be convicted of cruel treatment of his slave, and the judge shall deem it pr&per to pronounce, besides the penalty established for...the reach of the power which his master has abused." 8. The laws preventing emancipation in general, and restraining it in cases in which it is allowed,...
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