 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, are erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." That there is a difference in the systems of states, which recognise and which "do not recognise the... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...condition of things), then it was superfluous and contradictory to say " that it could only be introduced by positive law,"—" it is so odious that nothing...can be suffered to support it but positive law,"— that " so high an act of dominion must be recognized by the law of the country where it is used ; "... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - Slavery - 1858 - 612 pages
...long after the reasons occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot. say this case is allowed... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is 8O odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. 'Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I caunot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1859 - 786 pages
...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law; whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from our decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 670 pages
...extent, we find a clear intimation of the principle above stated. Slavery, .said Lord Mansfield, "is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...can be suffered to support it, but positive law." But this is a clear admission, and indeed this is manifest throughout his opinion, that although odious... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...It had been declared by Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, in England, that slavery was " so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." At the time the Federal Constitution was adopted, there was not, in the State Constitutions, any thing... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 268 pages
...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature," so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...the thirteen North American colonies.^ But Lord Mansfield said, in Somerset's case, that slavery was "so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." No such positive law was ever passed by Parliament — certainly not with reference to any of these... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 252 pages
...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature, " so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article... | |
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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... 
