 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 440 pages
...proceedings against his master for the recovery of his freedom, MANSFIELD says : — " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself whence it was created,... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 820 pages
..."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 by inferences drawn from any principles,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...would seem, will best vindicate the juridical fitness of his language when he said, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...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,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...power of a master over his slave has been extremely different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...introduced on any reasons, moral or political ; but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, is erased... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - Slavery - 1858 - 612 pages
...power of a master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive laAv, which preserves its force long after the reasons occasion, and time itself from whence... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...given, for not sustaining it, is not a good judicial reason. 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." If he intended to say that the moral and political reasons against slavery were such that even positive... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1858 - 470 pages
...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 by inferences drawn from any principles,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...expressed by the Bench. " In giving the opinion of the court, Lord Mansfield said: " ' The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...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,... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...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...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 every court of... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...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...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 every court of... | |
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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... 
