 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - Liczba stron: 662
...decision in the §ommersett case, rendered four years before our Declaration, of Independence, that, "the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced ou any reasons moral or political, but only positive law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Edward Potton, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - 1896 - Liczba stron: 760
...liberty, inasmuch as the law of England did not recognise the state of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to • shew, that at the... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - Liczba stron: 460
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " 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."... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - Liczba stron: 522
...present, " must derive its authority, if any such it has, from the law of the kingdom where executed. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced by courts of justice upon mere reasoning, or inferences from any principles natural or political ;... | |
 | 1920 - Liczba stron: 540
...vol. i, 292. (b) The Missouri Compromise; Cooley, Constitutional Law (3d ed.), 234. (c) The Civil War. ""The state of slavery is of such a nature that it...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.... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - Liczba stron: 548
...fifteen years prior to the Constitution, Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, said that "the state of slavery is of such a nature that it...being introduced on any reasons moral or political, ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." And with that statement.... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - Liczba stron: 556
...The state of slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, " 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," and... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - Liczba stron: 612
...be recognized by the law of the country where it is used. The power of a master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such *a na- [666 turo, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - 1975 - Liczba stron: 340
...Judicial Positivism 17 order. However, it is clear that the words that reached American eyes included: 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... | |
 | Peter Fryer - 1984 - Liczba stron: 652
...extensive, the exercise of it therefore must always be regulated by the laws of the place where exercised. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being now introduced by courts of justice upon mere reasoning, or inferences from any principles natural... | |
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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 by positive law... 
