...liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by doe course of law. It appears, therefore, that this power of locomotion is not entirely unrestricted,...

...relations of men were traditionally regulated by governments." Indeed, the opponents both son to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by .due course of law. 1 Blackstone, Commentaries (Lewis ed. 1902) . 134. This heritage was correctly deserted in Kent v....

...liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. It appears, therefore, that this power of locomotion is not entirely unrestricted, but that by due...

...to the case at hand: "Personal liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situations, or removing one's person to whatever place one's own inclination may direct, without restraint, unless by due course of law " 1 Bl. Com. 134 To exercise this right of liberty, plaintiffs...

...liberty; and this, he says, "Consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatever place one's own inclination...imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law." 3. The right of personal property; which he defines to be, "The free use, enjoyment, and disposal of...

...Chapter 8. Blackstone denned the right of personal liberty as "removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct; without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law." This right was denied to slaves, for, as Cobb noted, "the right of personal liberty in the slave is...

...liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or moving one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law"37). What I am contending the framers had in mind is that blacks, and whites sympathetic to blacks,...

...consists in the power of loco-motion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatsoever place one's own inclination may direct; without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law."10 Such rights, of course, were incompatible with chattel slavery. Even as early as 1765 Blackstone...

...moving one's person to whatsoever 4. Beating, whipping, or any other punishment. (Editor's trans.) place one's own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law." The slave, while possessing the power of locomotion, moves not as his own inclination may direct, but at...

...in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one's person to whatever place one's inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law.1 The definition implies that certain qualifications and limitations rest upon this power, which...