 | Richard Burn - Law - 2004 - 904 pages
...find the damages under 40^,, the plaintiff fhall have no more cofts thaij damages. SLAVERY. A.jlave, or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the prote£tion of the laws, and fo far becomes a freeman. ' Yet with regard to any right which the mafter... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - Social Science - 2005 - 472 pages
...this passage in the second and subsequent editions. The second (1766) and third (1768) editions read: "A slave or a Negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman; though the master's right to his service may probably still continue."... | |
 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - History - 2006 - 944 pages
...laws of England'. 'This spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution', he maintained, 'that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of our laws and . . . becomes eo instanti a freeman' (1, pp. 122- 3). t7 For common law jurists, English... | |
 | Deak Nabers - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...rooted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil," Blackstone explained, "that a slave or negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws; and so far becomes a freeman." Blackstone was emphatic about the general tendency of English... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Performing Arts - 2007 - 346 pages
...system, something that is recognized by Blackstone (in the first volume of his Commentaries): [The] spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution,...lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and with regard to all natural rights becomes eo instanti a freeman. It should be evident, upon... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh - History - 2008 - 371 pages
...infamous vacillating passage on slavery. Somerset's counsel invoked the passage from the Commentaries, "And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted...lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and with regard to all natural rights becomes eo instanti a freeman." So says the 1766 edition,... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 116 pages
...English jurist and legal scholar whose commentaries are still studied closely, had said that "a slave, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman." The Philadelphia convention that drafted the Constitution also... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1864 - 548 pages
...circumstance. He had cited, in the trial of one of the cases, an extract from Blackstone, in these words : " And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted...and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a ftegro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws ; and, with regard to... | |
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And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted even in our very soil, that a slave or a negro, the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and so far becomes a freeman (g) ; though the master's... 
