 | 1882 - 260 páginas
...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 moral...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 - 1882 - 204 páginas
...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 - 1882 - 1148 páginas
...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 - 1883 - 290 páginas
...20 State Trials, 1, Broom's Constitutional Law : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral...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 - 1885 - 196 páginas
...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... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 páginas
...contributor to the ultimate abolition process. His condemnation of slavery as an odious institution "incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive [statutory] law" gave abolitionists a broader platform of respectability from which to assert that... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 556 páginas
...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...nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law," and every court of every state, slave and free, has echoed and re-echoed these immortal words. And... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 612 páginas
...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 by positive law, which preserves its force long; Anderson v. Poindexter et al. .after the reasons, occasions, and time... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - 1975 - 340 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1984 - 384 páginas
...the case of the black slaves is worth recalling : "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 which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion and time itself from whence it was ever... | |
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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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is... 
