 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
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 pages
...unerring distinctiveness. Here is the definition supplied by this State : "Slaves shall be deemed, held, ? G F Ͻ R J8 3 \ p ~ pgς == u( ( q/* hNh Kfu [ ώH& e Ҳ W" < and possessors and their executors, administrators, and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1896 - 1286 pages
...This condition continued until 1740, when it was declared that negroes and Indian slaves should be reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors and their executors, administrators, and assigns. •' On the 8th of August, 1688, "an... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1896 - 1274 pages
...This condition continued until 1740, when it was declared that negroes and Indian slaves should be reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors and their executors, administrators, and assigns.3 On the 8th of August, 1GS8, "an act... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...in the payment of his debts. In South Carolina slaves were deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and judged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, to all intents and purposes whatever. Many were the restrictions set up against the... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - Abolitionists - 1894 - 944 pages
...read what the slave barons have enacted into law. "Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, represented and adjudged in law, to be chattels personal, in the hands of their owners or possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions and purposes... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Authors, American - 1896 - 504 pages
...consideration of slavery as it stands revealed in slave law. his master." 1 South Carolina says, " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and...be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, and administrators, and assigns, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 372 pages
...must belong to his master." * The law of another polished Slave State gives this definition : — " 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 Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 404 pages
...distinctiveness. According to the definition supplied by this State, slaves " shall be 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 asVOl. VI. — 9 signs, to all intents, constructions,... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 pages
...states, they are in all respects chattels ; as, for instance, in South Carolina, where the law declares : "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... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 pages
...states, they are in all respects chattels; as, for instance, in South Carolina, where the law declares: "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... | |
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