A Complete Collection of State Trials Vol. XX |
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Sivu 23
... Court was suspended till the following Tri- nity term ; and then the Court was unanimous- ly of opinion against the return , and ordered that Sommersett should be discharged . ARGUMENT OF MR . Hargrave for the Negro . * Though the ...
... Court was suspended till the following Tri- nity term ; and then the Court was unanimous- ly of opinion against the return , and ordered that Sommersett should be discharged . ARGUMENT OF MR . Hargrave for the Negro . * Though the ...
Sivu 53
... Court is said to have held , that trover will lie for a negro boy , because negroes are heathens ; and therefore a man may have property in them , and the Court without averment will take no- tice that they are heathens . On examination ...
... Court is said to have held , that trover will lie for a negro boy , because negroes are heathens ; and therefore a man may have property in them , and the Court without averment will take no- tice that they are heathens . On examination ...
Sivu 175
... Court of Common - Pleas was moved for a new trial . The defendant's counsel made his motion on two grounds . First , for excess of damages ; alledging that the jury had proceeded on a mistake , for they had found that the plaintiff was ...
... Court of Common - Pleas was moved for a new trial . The defendant's counsel made his motion on two grounds . First , for excess of damages ; alledging that the jury had proceeded on a mistake , for they had found that the plaintiff was ...
Sivu 207
... Court , I cannot at present foresee ; but if any are attempted , when I hear them , I shall be at liberty to give such answers to those arguments , as may occur to me by way of reply . Mr. Peckham . My lord , as the moderation and ...
... Court , I cannot at present foresee ; but if any are attempted , when I hear them , I shall be at liberty to give such answers to those arguments , as may occur to me by way of reply . Mr. Peckham . My lord , as the moderation and ...
Sivu 209
... court of Common Pleas for a new trial ; first , for excess of damages ; secondly , because the Court had no jurisdiction -the most extraordinary reason perhaps that ever was given ; to desire a second trial be- cause the Court had no ...
... court of Common Pleas for a new trial ; first , for excess of damages ; secondly , because the Court had no jurisdiction -the most extraordinary reason perhaps that ever was given ; to desire a second trial be- cause the Court had no ...
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Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.