 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1814 - 730 pągines
...Chief Justice Holt is'still mnreexplicit ; for he says, that" one may be a villein in England ;" but that " as soon as a negro comes into England, he becomes free." The words of these two great judges contain the whole of the proposition, for which I am contending.... | |
 | 1816 - 722 pągines
...Chief Justice Holt is still more explicit; for he says, that" one may be a villein in England ;" but that " as soon as a negro comes into England, he becomes free." The words of these two great judges contain the whole of the proposition, for which I am contending.... | |
 | T. B. Howell, Esq. - 1816 - 804 pągines
...Chief Justice Holt is still more explicit; for he says, that" one may be a villein in England ;" but that " as soon as a negro comes into England, he. becomes free." The words of these two great judges contain the whole of the proposition, for which I am contending.... | |
 | Prince Hoare - 1820 - 634 pągines
...Chief-Justice Holt, the dauntless vindicator of our laws in the reigns of William and Anne, had decided, that, as soon as a Negro comes into England, he becomes free; because " one may be a villeyn in England, but not a slave*." In opposition to his high authority,... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 pągines
...Browne, in the same page of Salkeld, in which Lord Holt is reported to have held, in arrest of judgment, that " as soon as a negro comes into England, he becomes free : one may be a villein in England but not a slave." The date of this latter case does not appear. know... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 pągines
...Chief Justice Holt is still more explicit for he says that "one may be a villeine in England ; but that as soon as a negro comes into England he becomes free." The last occasion upon which the freedom of any individual who had once placed his foot upon British... | |
 | 1860 - 428 pągines
...Arches, in the ward of Cheap. Verdict for plaintiff. On motion in arrest of judgment, Holt, CJ, said, " As soon as a negro comes into England he becomes free/' But in truth this case, like many others of the date, is not trustworthy. Lord Mansfield remarked on it,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 638 pągines
...Warda de Cheape, and verdict for the plaintiff; and on motion in arrest of judgment, Holt, CJ, held : that as soon as a negro comes into England he becomes free : one may be a villein in England, but not a slave. Et per Powell, J. In a villein the owner has a... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 778 pągines
...warda de Cheape, and verdict for the plaintiff; and on motion in arrest of judgment, Holt, CJ held, that as soon as a negro comes into England, he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave. Et per Powell, J. In a villein the owner has a property,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1859 - 786 pągines
...action to recover £20, the price of a negro sold by the plaintiff to the defendant in London) heldf " that as soon as a negro comes into England he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave." Mr. Justice Powell said, " In a villein the owner... | |
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CJ, held, that, as soon as a negro comes into England, he becomes free : one may be a villein in England, but not a slave. 
