 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...  The African Observer - Page 332edited by - 1828 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Williams - Common law - 1883 - 290 pages
...judgment of Lord Mansfield in Somersett's Case, 20 State Trials, 1, Broom's Constitutional Law : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." English courts will... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 998 pages
...but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time iteelf from whence it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can bo suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1038 pages
...were free. The golden words of Lord Mansfield were these : ' The state of slavery is of such a nature it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. ... It IN so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' This is the language... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1887 - 490 pages
...is used. The power of a master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable 88 Johnsons '•spontaneous tenderness? [Aume. ' DR. JOHNSON TO MR. BOSWELL. ' DEAR SIR, ' I make haste... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - History - 1980 - 548 pages
...fifteen years prior to the Constitution, Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, said that "the state of slavery is of such a nature that it...being introduced on any reasons moral or political, ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." And with that statement.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 612 pages
...been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such *a na- [666 turo, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons,...only by positive law, which preserves its force long; Anderson v. Poindexter et al. .after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...The state of slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law," and every court of every... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 340 pages
...Judicial Positivism 17 order. However, it is clear that the words that reached American eyes included: the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons ... but only by positive law. . . . It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but... | |
 | Peter Fryer - History - 1984 - 652 pages
...extensive, the exercise of it therefore must always be regulated by the laws of the place where exercised. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being now introduced by courts of justice upon mere reasoning, or inferences from any principles natural... | |
 | Law - 1984 - 384 pages
...Chapter VIII. 723. Cf. Article 62 of the Vienna Convention. "The state of slavery [ he said ] , is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reason, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons,... | |
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