 It is 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 approved by the law of England ; and therefore the black must be discharged.  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - Seite 88von James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Charles Ponsonby Lascelles - 1928 - 180 Seiten
...be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...England; and therefore the black must be discharged.' Don Quixote had won, alone and unaided, and thenceforward he could proclaim that 'as soon as any slave... | |
 | Sir Charles Grant Robertson - 1904 - 478 Seiten
...suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from this decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...England; and therefore the black must be discharged. (ST xx. 80-82.) REX v. TUBES 17 Geo. in., 1776. [John Tubbs was a certificated waterman of the city... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 Seiten
...be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...England; and therefore the black must be discharged. ST, xx, 80. 245. Wolfe Tone's Case, 1798. ... a motion was made in the Court of King's Bench by Mr.... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1906 - 484 Seiten
...ppsitive law. 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 black must be discharged." This was the final abolition of slavery in England. But, at the time of the grant to the Duke of York,... | |
 | Hugh Foot Baron Caradon - 1967 - 36 Seiten
...can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences therefore may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...England; and therefore the black must be discharged." From the date of that judgment every man who has set foot in this country has in the eyes of the law... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 Seiten
...be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.61 The Significance and Impact of Sommersett By its very nature, the Anglo-American legal... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1874 - 612 Seiten
...Lord Mansfield adds: " Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I can not say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must bo discharged." 3. It is not to be overlooked that Steuart was staying in England for an indefinite... | |
 | John Coleman De Graft-Johnson - 1986 - 240 Seiten
...but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say the case is allowed or approved by the law of England ; and, therefore, the black must be discharged. These were the words which were to make every slave who set foot in England as free as any Englishman.... | |
 | James W. St. G. Walker - 1992 - 468 Seiten
...political, but only by positive law. . . . Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.4 Though the effect of the Mansfield decision may have been exaggerated by some later writers,... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1989 - 856 Seiten
...be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved...the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.'89 Though he hedged his judgement about with qualifications, it was widely taken to signify... | |
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