...at the bar, and protracted adjournments of the court, it was solemnly decided, in 1772, that Slavery "is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law,"* and since no such law could be shown in England, Slavery was impossible there. This case, besides constituting...

...which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the...

...preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from where it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can...positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may fol24 low this decision, I can not say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and...

...this case Roswell Field contended for the broad principle enunciated by Lord Mansfield that " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." He consented to a discontinuance of the original action because of the variance of the complaint from...

...could not exist there. " Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision," he said, " I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law nf England, and therefore the black must be discharged." The question of prohibiting the African slave-trade...

...which preserves the force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It ' is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say, this case is allowed or approved...

...is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." And with that statement. Lord Mansfield freed the slave, Sommersett, demonstrating that there was no...

...v. Poindexter et al. .after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, or erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision. I can not say this case is allowed or approved.by the law of E: gland ; and therefore...

...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," and every court of every state, slave and free, has echoed and re-echoed these immortal words. And...

...nature, 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. Mansfield is explicit about the limited impact of his holding. He does not say that slavery cannot...