 | 1860 - 268 síður
...cannot direct the law : the law must direct mi. . . . . The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it :incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves iw force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself whence... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 síður
...rendered the following judgment : — " 'We cannot direct the law; the law must direct us. * * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time of itself whence... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 670 síður
...extent, we find a clear intimation of the principle above stated. Slavery, .said Lord Mansfield, "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."... | |
 | David Christy - 1862 - 646 síður
...V. Brown, 2 Salk., 666 ; 20 State Trials, 55, note.) (c) Lord MANSFIELD said, in Somersett's case, ' 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,' and negrophilism has been in raptures with him... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1868 - 208 síður
...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" —... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1864 - 1062 síður
...quoted as an illustration of 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 posit i re law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it bul, positive law." —... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 644 síður
...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 774 síður
...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 644 síður
...the haw, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of l*ing introdufced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 1642 síður
...the slave comes in question in the one case more than in the other ? The third principle is, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." " Slavery is so odious, lhat nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."... | |
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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... 
