 | Charles Sumner - 1868 - 208 str.
...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...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW" — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1864 - 656 str.
...that Somerset must he discharged. Lord Mansfield in Somerset's case says, that the state of slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "In this collision of individual opinions, and opposing decisions in the British books, ! this court... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 774 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. "Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 644 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. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 1642 str.
...is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law ; and, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. The same doctrine is clearly stated in the full and able opinion of Marshall CJ, in ihe case of the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 str.
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." 1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 542 str.
...true rule of interpretation. " The 1 Hoare's Memoirs of Sharp, p. 38. state of Slavery," he said, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."1 Therefore the authority for Slavery cannot be derived from any words of doubtful import. Such... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 984 str.
...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 learned chief-justice therefore ordered that Somersett, being claimed as a Virginia slave brought... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 str.
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW."1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1872 - 524 str.
...can be derived from no doubtful word or mere pretension, but only from clear and special recognition. "The state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW," — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened... | |
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