... shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to the full and... Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 123edited by - 1866Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1881 - 1188 pages
...Congress declared by law that, "All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security... | |
| North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...which gave to negroes " the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties' and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws... | |
| 1865 - 730 pages
...prejudice, any of thecivil rightsorimmunitiea belonging to whitepersons, including the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, leose.sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1866 - 854 pages
...unconstitutional. And in respect to the special rights conferred by the Bill, "the same right in every Stato and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue,...parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell, i hold, and convey real and personal estate, and to ! the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings... | |
| Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
| 1866 - 278 pages
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
| Lillian Foster - Presidents - 1866 - 322 pages
...classes so made citizens in every State and Territory of the United States. These rights are, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, or convey real arid personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 852 pages
...duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convoy real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws... | |
| Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...duly convicted, shall haire the same right in every State and Territory *n the United States to make and enforce contracts ; to sue, be parties, and give' evidence ; to inherit, purchase, leass, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property; and to full and equal benefit of all laws... | |
| W. Divoll - Citizenship - 1866 - 158 pages
...convicted, shall have the sameright, in every state and territory in the United States, to makeand enforce- contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence* to inherit, purchase-, lease* sell,, hold,, and convey real and; pei-sonaj property, and to full and equal benefit of all... | |
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