 | James Williams - Common law - 1883 - 290 pages
...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 or political, but only by positive law. ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." English courts will... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1038 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 moral or political, but only by positive law. ... It IN so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' This is the language... | |
 | Horace Bertram Nelson - Conflict of laws - 1889 - 516 pages
...boon extremely different in different countries. The stato of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral...erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can bo suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...before our Declaration of Independence, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law. . . It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." The... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 530 pages
...before our Declaration of Independence, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law. . . It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." The... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1893 - 628 pages
...countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reason, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force 1 Smith v. Brown, 2 Sulk., 666. " Ibid. * Stanley v. Harvey, 2 Hagg., 116. 4 Loffl., I. long after... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 pages
...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." * * * # * * *... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Edward Potton, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 760 pages
...recognise the state of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " 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." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to • shew, that at the time when he demanded... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 418 pages
...the true rule of interpretation. " The state of Slavery," he said, " 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."1 Therefore the authority... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 598 pages
...been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral...which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from where it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing... | |
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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,... 
