 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 526 páginas
...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... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 páginas
...decision in the §ommersett case, rendered four years before our Declaration, of Independence, that, "the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced ou any reasons moral or political, but only positive law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Edward Potton, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - 1896 - 760 páginas
...liberty, inasmuch as the law of England did not recognise the state of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to • shew, that at the time when he demanded... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - 460 páginas
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " 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." # * * * # ,# *... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 522 páginas
...present, " must derive its authority, if any such it has, from the law of the kingdom where executed. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced by courts of justice upon mere reasoning, or inferences from any principles natural or political ;... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 408 páginas
...It begins with the great words of Lord Mansfield, who, in the memorable case of Somerset, said : " 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." l This principle... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 418 páginas
...quoted as an illustration of the true rule of interpretation. " The state of Slavery," he said, " 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."1 Therefore the authority... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 404 páginas
..."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 be-ing introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but » 1 irv. I™, Absalom and Achitophel, Fart 1. 301, 303. only by positive law. It is so odious that... | |
 | George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - 1906 - 588 páginas
...high an act of dominion must be recognized by the law of the country where it is used. The power of a master over his slave has been extremely different,...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only bv positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence... | |
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