 Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever.  Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va: A Minister ... - Page 99by Samuel Macpherson Janney - 1890 - 309 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Antislavery movements - 1857 - 168 pages
...chattels," — things or articles of merchandise. " Slaves," say the laws of South Carolina and Georgia, " shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | None - History - 1857 - 144 pages
...chattels," — things or articles of merchandise. " Slaves," say the laws of South Carolina and Georgia, " shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | George Dodd Armstrong - Slavery - 1857 - 186 pages
...-willfully perverse can misunderstand it. 2. "A chattel, a thing?* " Slaves shall be claimed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors," is the language of the law in South Carolina. And hence it is inferred that that law... | |
 | John Hamilton Power - Slavery - 1859 - 386 pages
...possess nothing, nor acquire any thing but what must belong to his master." (Civil Code, Article 35.) " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | Charles Elliot - Slavery - 1859 - 358 pages
...the clanger or loss of life, or to cause death." (Stroud, p. 22.) The laws of South Carolina say, " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, "and adjudged in law to tie chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators,... | |
 | E. N. Elliott - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1860 - 1310 pages
...another polished slave State, says Mr. Sumner, "gives this definition: 'Slaves shall be delivered, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assignees, to all intents, constructions,... | |
 | William CRAFT - Fugitive slaves - 1860 - 132 pages
...expressed in the following language : — " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and judged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 pages
...ignored in one case, he must be in the other. " Slaves," says South Carolina (Civil Code, art. 35•) "shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions and... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Christianity and religious humanism - 1863 - 98 pages
...slavery of the time of the apostles. By judicial decisions under Southern law, " slaves are deemed, held, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1863 - 774 pages
...that ? It is a subordination that is legally determined as follows : ' Slaves shall be deemed, held, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessor:!, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
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