 | Peter Macinnis - 2002 - 220 str.
...emancipation had a great victory. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield said in 1772: 'The status of slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' Since there was no such law, he declared that a slave setting foot in England was thereby a free man... | |
 | Gregg David Crane - 2002 - 316 str.
...legislation). Lord Mansfield's opinion became famous for a statement attributed to it that slavery was "so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."64 The case provided antislavery constitutionalists, such as Chase and Sumner, with an argument... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 2005 - 472 str.
...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: It's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."' With the Mansfield ruling Sharp appeared to have moved from winning battles to winning the war against... | |
 | Deak Nabers - 2006 - 266 str.
...slavery is of such a nature," he claimed, "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."8 We might at first take Mansfield's argument to be simply another version of Blackstone's: insisting... | |
 | Jeannine Marie DeLombard - 2009 - 344 str.
...Summons."11 In Somerset u. Steumrt (1772), William Murray, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, found that slavery "is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." 12 The Mansfield decision capped the tireless print and legal activism of British reformer Granville... | |
 | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall - 2007 - 430 str.
...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. ..and therefore the black must be discharged.12 The Somerset decision inspired abolitionists in England.13... | |
 | Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss - 2007 - 240 str.
...is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law... it's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences therefore may follow from a decision I cannot say this case is allowed or approved... | |
 | Jacqueline Bacon - 2007 - 340 str.
...such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political. . . . It's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law."28 This decision had a great impact in the American colonies and subsequently in the United States.... | |
 | William Hague - 2007 - 644 str.
...a foreign country. Slavery, Mansfield found, was not provided for in English law, and was something 'so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law'. Such a ruling was, partly inadvertently, a death blow to slavery within the British Isles themselves,... | |
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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... 
