A Complete Collection of State Trials Vol. XX |
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... duty as ( d ) This answer to the argument of modi- fication , includes an answer to the supposition , that an action of trespass per quod servitium ⚫ amisit , ' will lie for loss of a negro's service . I am persuaded , that the case ...
... duty as ( d ) This answer to the argument of modi- fication , includes an answer to the supposition , that an action of trespass per quod servitium ⚫ amisit , ' will lie for loss of a negro's service . I am persuaded , that the case ...
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... duty he was bound to spare him in battle , ( which he always is , when he can with safety ) by the same he obliges himself to spare the life of the captive , and re- store his liberty as soon as possible , consistent with those ...
... duty he was bound to spare him in battle , ( which he always is , when he can with safety ) by the same he obliges himself to spare the life of the captive , and re- store his liberty as soon as possible , consistent with those ...
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... duty to maintain those arguments which are most useful to captain Knowles , as far as is consistent with truth ; and if his con- duct has been agreeable to the laws throughout , I am under a farther indispensible duty to sup port it . I ...
... duty to maintain those arguments which are most useful to captain Knowles , as far as is consistent with truth ; and if his con- duct has been agreeable to the laws throughout , I am under a farther indispensible duty to sup port it . I ...
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... duty ; an action of assault and battery , and false imprisonment , was brought ; and the principal question was , on demurrer , whether the master could command the servant , though he might have justified his taking of the ser- vant by ...
... duty ; an action of assault and battery , and false imprisonment , was brought ; and the principal question was , on demurrer , whether the master could command the servant , though he might have justified his taking of the ser- vant by ...
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... duty upon the prisoner Mr. Fabrigas . How long had Mr. Fabrigas been in cus- tody at that time when this order was given out ? Was it immediately upon his coming into custody , or after he had been put there ? - During his confinement ...
... duty upon the prisoner Mr. Fabrigas . How long had Mr. Fabrigas been in cus- tody at that time when this order was given out ? Was it immediately upon his coming into custody , or after he had been put there ? - During his confinement ...
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Seite 19 - ... or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...
Seite 249 - Chief of our said Province for the time being, then such and so many of the said Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as shall be so disallowed and not approved shall from thenceforth cease, determine and become utterly void and of none effect, anything to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Seite 801 - WHEN the complaints of a brave and powerful people are observed to increase in proportion to the wrongs they have suffered, when, instead of sinking into submission, they are roused to resistance, the time will soon arrive at which every inferior consideration must yield to the security of the sovereign and to the general safety of the state.
Seite 665 - ... to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being immediately collected, it was thereupon resolved that Mr.
Seite 81 - 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, which preserves its force long 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.
Seite 801 - ... you heard it in the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.'' We are far from thinking you capable of a direct deliberate purpose to invade those original rights of your subjects, on which all their civil and political liberties depend. Had it been...
Seite 243 - Governors of our said colonies, respectively, that, so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call general assemblies, within the said governments, respectively, in such manner and form as is used and directed in those colonies and provinces in America, which are under our immediate government...
Seite 649 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Seite 805 - ... unworthy personal resentment. From one false step you have been betrayed into another, and, as the cause was unworthy of you, your ministers were determined that the prudence of the execution should correspond with the wisdom and dignity of the design. They have reduced you to the necessity of choosing out of a variety of difficulties — to a situation so unhappy that you can neither do wrong without ruin nor right without affliction. These worthy servants have undoubtedly given you many singular...
Seite 811 - Lay aside the wretched formalities of a king, and speak to your subjects with the spirit of a man, and in the language of a gentleman. Tell them you have been fatally deceived.