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" The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only... "
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue - Page 202
1859 - 280 pages
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A Shorter Selection of Cases on the Conflict of Laws

Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1907 - 840 pages
...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is erased from memory. It 's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or...
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A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest ..., Volume 5

Elroy McKendree Avery - United States - 1908 - 600 pages
...a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by a positive law. . . . It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I can not say this case is allowed...
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The Anti-slavery Reporter

Slavery - 1860 - 326 pages
...state of Slavery," said Lord Alansûeld, pronouncing jndgment in the great case of Somersett, s' is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW" — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened...
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The History of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 1859-1909

A. E. M. Anderson-Morshead - Christianity - 1909 - 550 pages
...state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, natural or political, but only by positive law. ... It is...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...
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Great Debates in American History: The Civil War

Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 448 pages
...follow Lord Mansfield, who, in the memorable case of Sommersett, said : ' ' 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." (Howell's "State Trials," Vol. 20, p. 82.) This principle has been adopted by tribunals even in slaveholding...
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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process. The Colonial Period

A. Leon Higginbotham - History - 1980 - 548 pages
...long after the reasons, occasion, 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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 9

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...[115 cial application to the particular subject now under discussion; which subject, be it remembered, is the power of the master to recapture by force in...sole condition upon which it can found its existence. Lookingat its bad eminence, well may the jurist, no less than the moralist and the statesman, declare...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Volume 6

Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 612 pages
...al. .after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, or 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 can not say this case is allowed...
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Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process

Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 340 pages
...the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons ... but only by positive law. . . . It is so odious, that...nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Mansfield is explicit about the limited impact of his holding. He does not say that slavery cannot...
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African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations

John Coleman De Graft-Johnson - Social Science - 1986 - 240 pages
...: The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, but only by positive law. 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 the case is allowed...
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