 | Henry Wager Halleck - War - 1878 - 588 pages
...law is applied ; but here he says the want of a positive law concludes the Court, because slavery ' is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' In effect he accepts the first argument for the slave, that slavery is contrary to the law of nature... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Judges - 1879 - 460 pages
...being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." And, again, " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive law is meant a law enacted by the legislative power of the country, this assertion... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...It had been declared by Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, in England, that slavery was " so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." At the time the Federal Constitution was adopted, there was not, in the State Constitutions, any thing... | |
 | James Breckinridge Waller - Enslaved persons - 1880 - 104 pages
...the laws of the West Indies.' In the final judgment he delivers himself thus : ' The state of slavery is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' That is slavery as it existed in the West Indies, for it is to that he looks, considering that many... | |
 | Slavery - 1882 - 260 pages
...free. The golden words of Lord Mansfield were these : " The state of slavery is of such a " nature it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons...can be suffered to support it, but " positive law." This is the language more than a century since uttered by no softhearted humanitarian, but by the Conservative... | |
 | Frederick Charles Moncreiff - Judges - 1882 - 204 pages
...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it sprang, are erased from the memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say that this case is allowed... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | James Williams - Common law - 1883 - 290 pages
...Mansfield in Somersett's Case, 20 State Trials, 1, Broom's Constitutional Law : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." English courts will recognize the status of slavery in a foreign country, if allowed by the law of... | |
 | Ernest Chester Thomas - Constitutional law - 1885 - 196 pages
...Mansfield, LCJ, delivered judgment that the Judgment, return was insufficient. ' The state of slavery .... is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law .... I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must... | |
 | Ernest Chester Thomas - Constitutional law - 1885 - 214 pages
...Mansfield, LCJ, delivered judgment that the Judgment. return was insufficient. ' The state of slavery .... is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law .... I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must... | |
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