Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 26Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Benjamin Harrison, Gordon Tanner, James Buckley Black, Michael Crawford Kerr, Augustus Newton Martin, John Worth Kern, Francis Marion Dice, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1867 - Law reports, digests, etc "With tables of the cases and principal matters" (varies). |
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Page 304 - States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property ; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for...
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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 26 |
| Authors | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Benjamin Harrison, Gordon Tanner, James Buckley Black, Michael Crawford Kerr, Augustus Newton Martin, John Worth Kern, Francis Marion Dice, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 14, 2007 |
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