 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...is used. The power of a master over his slave has been exceedingly different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing... | |
 | Frederick Charles Moncreiff - Judges - 1882 - 204 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...being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, and can only be enforced in obedience to positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons,... | |
 | Slavery - 1882 - 260 pages
...Common Law came the doctrine enunciated by Lord Mansfield, in Somersett's case, when he said : — " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...incapable of being introduced on " any reasons, moral qr political, but only by positive law." " It is so odious that " nothing can be suffered to support... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 492 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 ' DR. JOHNSON TO MR. BOSWELL. ' DEAR SIR, ' I make haste to write again, lest my last letter should... | |
 | Horace Bertram Nelson - Conflict of laws - 1889 - 516 pages
...The power of a master over his slave has boon extremely different in different countries. The stato of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can bo suffered to support... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1889 - 590 pages
...entitled to be set at liberty, inasmuch as the law of England did not recognise the state of slavery. Lord Mansfield says : — " The state of slavery is of...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but onlv by positive law(a)." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to show that at... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 528 pages
...decision in the Somersett case, rendered four years before our Declaration of Independence, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law. . . It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." The... | |
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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... 
