| Thomas Bayly Howell - 1814 - 730 pàgines
...different, in different countries. 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
| T. B. Howell, Esq. - 1816 - 804 pàgines
...different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it ii incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
| 1816 - 724 pàgines
...different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it ii incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created,... | |
| 1828 - 390 pàgines
...judgment, may serve to evince : — " 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created,... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - 1837 - 514 pàgines
...by Lord Mansfield in Sommersett's case was, that slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law ; and, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to report it but positive law. The same doctrine... | |
| Joseph Story - 1841 - 966 pàgines
...by Lord Mansfield in Somerset's case, was, that slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law; and it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. The same doctrine... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1851 - 716 pàgines
...Fannur. facto, a freeman. " The state of slavery, said he, is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law — it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." 20 Stale Tr. 80. . The same... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 pàgines
...pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." (Howell's State Trials, vol.... | |
| 1853 - 380 pàgines
...some crime." — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773. " Slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." — Judgment in the great... | |
| Robert Phillimore - 1854 - 930 pàgines
...different in different countries. 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence *it was ever... | |
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