Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever. America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected ... - Page 52by Francis Wyse - 1846 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1882 - 594 pages
...property ; in the language of lav, "held, taken, reputed, and adjudged to be a chattel in the hands of my owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators,...intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever." (Brev. Digest, 224.) In the Northern States, a fugitive slave, liable to be hunted at any moment like... | |
| Benjamin James - Common law - 1822 - 730 pages
...shall bo tU-vtned and adjudged, in hi«, to be cli ilvi- personal in the li;n «is of their owners, and their executors, administrators, and assigns,...all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever, — (a.) II. Nu person shall permit, or suffer, any slave, under his, or her. « ¡ire, or management,... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 190 pages
...undoubted law in all of these states. In South Carolina it is expressed in the following language: " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...law to be chattels personal^ in the hands of their • ... * An apt illustration of this doctrine, is presented in an act of Maryland, of 1798, Chap.... | |
| George McDowell Stroud - Slavery - 1827 - 192 pages
...allowed to demand sureties of the peace against a. violent and barbarous master. Under these regu* owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators...all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever* 2 Brev. Dig. 229; Prince's Digest, 446, fyc. fyc. Absolute despotism needs not a more comprehensive... | |
| Thomas Doughty Condy - African Americans - 1830 - 210 pages
...be and remain for ever hereafter absolute slaves, and shall follow the condition of the mother; and shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever. STEALING BOATS, &c. ACT of March 16, 1695-6. Grimke's Public Laws, 2. whose service and employment... | |
| George Bourne - Slavery - 1833 - 228 pages
...in all of these (the slave) states." The law of South Carolina says,* "Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels...INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND PURPOSES WHATSOEVER." In Louisiana, " A slave is one who is in the power of a master, to whom he belongs ; the master may... | |
| Oliver Johnson - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 42 pages
...deprives them of the privilege of being witnessess in any case where a white man is the accused ;J— * ' Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever.'— Civil Code of SC—See Stroud's ' Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery,'p. 23. t A law in North Carolina,... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1835 - 184 pages
...acquire any thing, but what must belong to his master. The law of South Carolina adjudges slaves " to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners...all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever." And this is declared to be FOR EVER. In accordance with such laws, these MILLIONS OP HUMAN BEINGS are... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1835 - 184 pages
...acquire any thing, but what must belong to his master. The law of South Carolina adjudges slaves " to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners...and their executors, administrators and assigns to nil intents, construction* and purposes whatsoever." And this is declared to be FOR EVER. In accordance... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...and treated as property. In South Carolina, this state is described in the following language ; —" Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chatteh, personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators,... | |
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