| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 558 páginas
...master claimed the benefit in donation to a negro, said: " As soon as a man puts foot on English ground he is free ; a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus, it restrained of his liberty."8 These cases were crowned by... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 562 páginas
...master claimed the benefit in donation to a negro, said: " As soon as a man puts foot on English ground he is free ; a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus, it restrained of his liberty."8 These cases were crowuea by... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1876 - 652 páginas
...Hardwicke, sitting as Chancellor in 1849, declared that trover would lie for a negro slave who had cdme over to this country. " he is free. A negro may maintain...plaintiff in the suit, to his niece, who had had him baptised, and had changed his name. The niece just before her death, had made him a gift of a sum of... | |
| Ernest Chester Thomas - 1885 - 196 páginas
...was dismissed with costs by Northington, C. Held: — As soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free. A negro may maintain an action against...have a Habeas Corpus if restrained of his liberty. Note. — The subject of Slavery is perhaps strictly not a question of Constitutional Law ; since personal... | |
| Ernest Chester Thomas - 1885 - 212 páginas
...bill was dismissed with costs by Northington, CHeld: — As soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free. A negro may maintain an action against...have a Habeas Corpus if restrained of his liberty. Note. — The subject of Slavery is perhaps strictly not a question of Constitutional Law ; since personal... | |
| Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1889 - 590 páginas
...must likewise be observed that his lordship here mentions only two effects of it, for he adds, — " A negro may maintain an action against his master for ill-usage, and may have a habt-as corpus if restrained of his liberty " This is an instance in which the law of England differed... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1900 - 434 páginas
...master claimed the benefit in donation to a negro, said: " As soon as a man puts foot on English ground he is free ; a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus, il restrained of his liberty."8 These cases were crowned by... | |
| A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 páginas
...could exercise the rights any freeman was able to enjoy. As soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free: a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus if restrained of his liberty.67 The Influence of the Abolitionists... | |
| David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 páginas
...297. 1762 the Lord Chancellor laid down the maxim that "as soon as a man puts foot on English ground, he is free: a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus, if restrained of his liberty." Three years later, in the first... | |
| Gavin Wright - 2006 - 176 páginas
...by the courts, as in the 1762 case Shanley v. Harvey: "As soon as a man sets foot on English ground he is free: a negro may maintain an action against his master for ill usage, and may have a Habeas Corpus if restrained of his liberty." When Chief Justice Mansfield... | |
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