...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is " erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but " positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, 1 cannot " say this case is allowed...

...when foreign law is applied ; but here he says the want of a positive law concludes the Court, because slavery ' is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' In effect he accepts the first argument for the slave, that slavery is contrary to the law of nature...

...incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." And, again, " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive law is meant a law enacted by the legislative power of the country, this assertion...

...It had been declared by Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, in England, that slavery was " so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." At the time the Federal Constitution was adopted, there was not, in the State Constitutions, any thing...

...thereby the laws of the West Indies.' In the final judgment he delivers himself thus : ' The state of slavery is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' That is slavery as it existed in the West Indies, for it is to that he looks, considering that many...

...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it sprang, are erased from the memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say that this case is allowed...

...incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only " by positive law. ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but " positive law." This is the language more than a century since uttered by no softhearted humanitarian, but by the Conservative...

...incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. ... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." English courts will recognize the status of slavery in a foreign country, if allowed by the law of...

...Lord Mansfield, LCJ, delivered judgment that the Judgment. return was insufficient. ' The state of slavery .... is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law .... I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must...

...Lord Mansfield, LCJ, delivered judgment that the Judgment, return was insufficient. ' The state of slavery .... is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law .... I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must...