A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery: Being a Compilation of All the Decisions Made on that Subject, in the Several Courts of the United States, and State Courts. With Copious Notes and References to the Statutes and Other Authorities, Systematically Arranged |
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... and other settlers of the Kaskaskias and Vincennes , and other villages , the
laws and customs now in force among them relative to the descent and
conveyance of property . If the laws of Virginia were extended to them , there
could exist no ...
... and other settlers of the Kaskaskias and Vincennes , and other villages , the
laws and customs now in force among them relative to the descent and
conveyance of property . If the laws of Virginia were extended to them , there
could exist no ...
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Pagina 344 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Pagina 293 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Pagina 336 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Pagina 347 - That there are certain natural rights of which men, when they form a social compact cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life • and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Pagina 7 - ... any negro or mulatto, not held to service by the laws of either of the States or Territories of the United States...
Pagina 36 - The jury found a verdict for the defendant ; and a motion for a new trial having been made and overruled, the plaintiff prosecutes this writ of error to this court.
Pagina 59 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Pagina 337 - However they began, or by what right soever they subsist, there is and must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summi imperil, or the rights of sovereignty, reside.
Pagina 377 - ... that all servitude for life, or slavery of children, in consequence of the slavery of their mothers, in the case of all children born within this State from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid, shall be, and hereby is, utterly taken away, extinguished, and forever abolished.
Pagina 356 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
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| Titel | A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery: Being a Compilation of All the Decisions Made on that Subject, in the Several Courts of the United States, and State Courts. With Copious Notes and References to the Statutes and Other Authorities, Systematically Arranged Nummers 66964-66969 van 19th-century legal treatises Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery |
| Auteur | Jacob D. Wheeler |
| Uitgever | A. Pollock, jr, 1837 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 4 aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0598569545, 9780598569547 |
| Lengte | 476 pagina's |
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