A

Abbott on Shipping, 29 (2).
Abolition Documents, 515 (3).
Aboriginal inhabitants, law applied to
them, 199; slavery of by captivity,

200. See Indians.
Abraham's sacrifice of his son, 360 (5).
Absolute rights, 51.

power of the state, 12; its in-
vestiture during the colonial period,
126-128; how held in the U. S., 414.
Acquisition of territory by Government of
U. S., 410.

Adams, J. Q., 414 (2).

William, Law of Slavery in British
India, 203 (2).
Æthiopian race, 217 (2).
African slavery, antiquity of, 161; exten-
sion in 15th century, 162; slave trade
under English statutes, 174.

Company, the, 175 (2), 181 (1).
Africans. See Negroes.
Ahrens, Naturrecht, 19 (1), 37 (1), 40 (1).
Aliens, 48, 60; to the colony and to the

empire distinguished, 318; physical
distinction among, 320; foreign and
domestic defined, 445; power over
their condition in the U. S., 450.
Ambassador, case of slave of, 337.
America, laws of England extended to,
118.

American Jurist, 21 (1), 31 (1), 46 (2).
Law Register, 194.

Tracts, 118 (1), 129 (1), 198 (1).
Analytical school of jur'sprudence, 47 (2).
Anglican liberty, 31 (1).

Animals feræ naturæ, 385 (1).
Annual Register, 216 (1).

Antinomiauism in Rh. Island, 274.

Asso y Manuel, Institutes of Spanish Law,
344 (2).
Austin's Province of Jur. Determined, 1
(1), 6 (1), 11 (3), 12 (2), 13 (2, 6),
15 (1), 19 (3), 21 (1), 36 (3), 41 (2),
52, 93 (1), 146 (1), 148 (1), 398 (1).
Autonomic action in international law, 112.
action of Congress in admitting
new States, 412 (1).

Ayala, 204 (2).

Ayliffe, Pandects, 1 (1), 16 (1).

B

Bacon's Abridgment, 127 (1).

Laws of Maryland, 247–254.
Lord, Essays, 13 (4); Advance-
ment of Learning, 15 (2), 18 (1), 25
(1), 26 (2), 28 (2), 31 (1), 80 (2), 115
(1), 130 (1), 526 (3), 586 (1).

Nathaniel, Historical Discourse on
the Uniformity of the Government of
England, 125 (2), 136 (3), 255 (2).
Baldwin, Judge, Constitutional Views, 405
(2), 408 (2); on property in slaves,
561 (1).

Bancroft, in Coll. N. Y. Hist. Soc., 229;

Hist. of U. S., 119 (4, 5, 6), 120 (3, 4),
121 (1, 2, 4), 126 (1, 4), 157 (1), 161
(1), 162 (3, 4), 174 (2), 204 (1), 205
(1, 2, 3, 4), 206 (1, 2), 208 (2), 210,
217 (2), 219 (5), 221 (1), 232 (1),
254 (2), 255 (2), 261 (1), 263 (1),
278 (2), 275 (1), 289 (1), 293 (1), |
310 (1).
Baptism, effect on slavery by unwritten
law, 165, 210, 358; altered by statute,
Va, 232, 234, 240, 243; Md., 250,
(1), 252; N. Y, 281; S. C., 297, 300.
Barbarous punishment law of Mass., 259.
Barbary stites, their piracies, 160.
Barbeyrac, 337 (1).

Barrington on the Statutes, 177 (1), 179,
211 (1), 332 (2), 339.

Bartlett, J. R., Records of R. I. col., 273 (3).
Basilica, the, 18 (2).

Belknap. Letter to Tucker on slavery in
Mass, 258 (1), 264 (1); Hist. of N.
Hamp., 265 (1, 2), 267 (1).
Benedict's Admiralty, 29 (2).
Benjamin, Senator, speech in debate on
Kansas, 572, 582-587
Bentham's Morals and Legisl, 6 (1), 9 (1),,

16 (4), 18 (2), 26 (1), 32 (1) 48 (2),
146 (1), 469 (1); Papers relative to
codification, 25 (4); Plea for the Con-
stitution, 129 (1).

Benton's Examination of the Dred Scott
case, 423 (1), 429 (3), 440 (2).
Berkeley's Works, 210 (1).
Best, Ch. J., on Somerset's case, 376 (3).
Bethell, Sir Richard, 31 (1), 144 (2).
Bettle's Essay on Slavery, 206 (1).
Beverley's Virginia, 205 (4), 230 (1)
Bills of rights during the colonial period,

123; that in the Cons. U. S. 463; does
not restrict the States, 476.
Birth, alien or native, 49; effect of, com-
pared with that of domicil, 316; from
slave mother in Roman law, 151; of
status by, in modern Europe, and col-
onies, 211; status by, under statute
Va., 241; Md., 249, 251 (1), 252;
N. Y. 281; S. C. 299, 303.
Blackstone's Comm., 1 (1), 7 (3), 9 (1), 12,

20 (1), 27 (2), 29 (2), 31 (1), 88
(1, 2), 115, 120 (1), 127, 128, 130 (1),
132 (1), 136 (1, 4), 137 (2), 140 (2),
196 (3), 211 (1), 218 (2), 259 (1),
379 (1, 3), 380 (5), 507 (1), 588 (2),
and see Tucker's Blackstone.
Blair, Slavery among the Romans, 156
(4), 157 (1).

Board of Trade and Plantations, 309 (2).
Bodin's Republic, 12 (2), 159 (1), 165 (1),
167 (3), 214 (2), 314 (1), 337, 339 (1),
341 (1), 354 (2).

1

Bollan's Coloniæ Anglicane Illustrate,
160 (5)

Bondage of legal persons, 39; replaced
chattel slavery in Europe, 157; of in-
dentured servants, 218, 325.
Boston, town of, on negro slavery, 263
(1, 2).

Boswell's Life of Johnson, 333 (1)
Bosworth's Anglo-Sax. Lex., 18 (2),
Boucaut, or Borcaut, case of, in France,
338.

Bouvier's Inst. Am. Law, 399 (1).
Bower's Popes, 160 (2).
Bowyer's Universal Pub. L., 1 (2), 3 (1), 4

(1), 8 (1), 11 (2), 12 (1), 15 (4), 16
(2, 4), 23 (1), 45 (1), 47 (1), 49(1),
58 (1), 99 (1), 144 (3), 196 (3), 314
(1), 506 (3).

Bozius, de Jure Status, 94 (1).
Bracton, 127 (1), 144 (2), 207 (3), 419 (1).
Bradford, Gov., patent to, 254 (2).

Judge, on Foreign Law, 71 (1).
Brande's Dict., 1 (1), 15 (1).
Brehon law, 28 (1).
Brevard's observations, 293 (1).
British empire, public law of, during co-
lonial period, 126; distinction of ja-
risdiction in it, 317.

British precedents, their authority before
revol., 333.

Broadhead's Hist. of N. Y., 206 (1).
Brompton, 131 (2).
Brougham's Political Philosophy, 18 (2);
Colonial Policy, 208 (2).
Browne's Civil and Admiralty Law, 46 (1),
144 (3).
Brownlow, 218 (2).

Buchanan, President, reference to Dred
Scott's case by, 559 (1).

Bulls, Papal, decreeing slavery, 160 (2,5).
Bunsen's Signs of the Times, 12 (1).
Bureaucracy, 420 (4).

Burge's Comm. on Col. and For. L., 33 (1),
71 (1), 181 (1), 209 (1), 308 (1), 333
(1), 378 (1).

Burke, speeches of, 225 (4), 461 (1); Ac-

count of the Brit. Settl. in Am., 381
(2).
Burning, death of slave by, in Mass., 259
(1).

Butler, Hora Juridicæ, 18 (2), 28 (2), 29
(1), 31 (1), 94 (1), 144 (1).

B.F. Discourse on the Const. Hist.
of N. Y., 221 (1).
Bynkershoek Quæst. Jur. Pub., 161 (3),
204 (2); De Foro Legatorum, 337
(1); Essay on the Patria Potestas,
360 (5).

Byzantine Jurists, 18 (2).

Coleridge, S. T., 513 (5), 524 (2).
Collamer, Senator, on property in slaves,
581 (1).

Collision of laws, use of term, 97 (3).
Colonial Governments, views of their
powers, 120, 126; how abrogated by
the revolution, 400; law for slavery,
209, 225.

Colonies, origin of law in, 228; negro
slavery, when introduced, 205; law of
those not first settled by English,
221; private law of, continued after
the Revolution, 467.
Colonists, their doctrine of the public law
of the empire, 120-126; personal laws
determining their condition, 196.
Colored races, basis of their status in the
colonies, 215.

Condition of things, 2; personal, defined,

39; two distinct laws of, in the colo-
nies, 216, 226.
Congress, its recommendation to colonial
conventions, 267 (1), 402 (2); pro-
ceedings relative to St. John Parish
and the Mecklenburgh decl., 406
(1); of the Revolution had no power
over status, 469; question of its power
over slavery in the Territories, 525;
autonomic power in admission of
States, 412, (1).

Correspondence between Gov. of New Neth.
and N. E. Commissioners, 268 (5).
Confederacy of New England colonies, 268
(5), 329.

Confederation, state sovereignty in, 407
(1); article affecting status in, 522.
Conflict of laws, 62, 97.
Connecticut, sovereignty in the freemen
of, 126 (4); origin of Gov. 267 (2);
slavery in, 212 (2), 359 (4); statute
law of colony, 267-273.
Conquered countries, their laws continue,

114.

Conspiracy of slaves. See Slaves, insur-
rection.

Constitutio juris gentium, meaning of, 152.
Constitutions, force of written, 396; if

changeable except in accordance with
their own terms, 413; authority is of
the nature of customary law, 27, (2);
containing legislative changes of ex-
isting law, 526, (2); of the several
States as restrictive of legislature,
520.

Constitution of the United States, by what
people established, 400; evidence of
the location of sovereign power, 422;
contains private law also, 423, 452;
whether it speaks of slaves as prop-
erty or as persons, 560.

Constant, M. Benj., 35 (3), 420 (3), 461 (1).
Contrary and opposite, the terms distin-
guished, 524 (2).

Conversion to Christianity. See Baptism.
Convention, revolutionary, at Exeter, N. H.
267 (1).

Convicts, statute against importation of,
Va.,232; Md., 250; Conn, -72; Pa.,
290.

Coode on Legislative Expression, 20 (3).
Cooper's version of Inst., 214 (1).
Cornbury, Governor, of N. Y. and N. J.,

283, 280; his instructions, 280 (1).
Corpus Juris Civilis. See Roman Law.
Comity, reason of the judicial rule so called,

69; error prevalent on this topic, 73,
76, 352; substitute for the ordinary
rule, 81; application of the rule to
slave cases during the colonial period,
366; question of, in Dred Scott's case,
490 (2).

Commerce, law of, maritime, embracing
universal jurisprudence, 89 (1); sla-
very under it, 174.
Commissioners of the united N. E. Col.,
268 (5).

of the U. S. Courts, their
office ministerial, 508; judicial au-
thority on their action under the fu-
gitive slave law, 501 (2), 508 (1).
Common law, what is, 31; Jefferson's
view, 119 (1); its personal extent in
America, 124-129; its extent in the
British empire, 131; its effect as a
law of condition, 132; its local devel-
opment in each colony, 209; none
having a national territorial extent
in the U. S., 478-482; may operate
as a personal law, 480; when sus-
taining and when not sustaining sla-
very in the colonies, 324, 390.
Compact, the theory of the social, not il-
lustrated in the U. S., 400 (2), 513
(5); of voluntary compacts in the first
settlement of the colonies, 120, 254,
265 (1), 267.

Compromise, the unconstitutionality of the

Missouri, 528 (1): the compromise
measures of 1850, 563 (1).
Comstock, Judge, on power of legislature,

529 (5); on the foundation of prop-
erty, 565 (1).

Comte, Traité de Legislation, 7 (2); de
la Propriété, 469 (2).
Corvinus, Jus Canonicum, 94 (1).
Courts of ordinary juri-diction in the
States. their
concurrent judicial
power, 501.
Covarruvias, 204 (2).
Cousin, 7 (1).

Cowell's Inst., 207 (3).
Crawford, Judge, on judicial power under
fug slave law, 502 (2).
Criminals, surrender of in Conn., 272; in
N. E. Articles of Confed., 268 (5).
See Convicts.
Cruikshank, Slavery on the Gold Coast,
203 (2).

Curtis, G. T., Commentaries on the Jurisd.
&c., of the U. S. Courts, 429 (3), 492
(1), 493 (1, 3), 496 (1, 2), 498 (2),
567 (1), 590 (3); History of the Con-
stitution, 120 (1), 126 (2), 314 (2),
400 (2), 401 (1), 406 (1, 2, 5), 408
(2), 518 (2).

Mr. Justice, in Dred Scott's case,
334 (3); slavery a variable status,
358 (5); meaning of citizen, 436 (2);
criterion of State law, 490 (2); on
the Missouri Compromise, 546–554.
Cushing, L. S., on Study of Roman Law,
15 (1), 25 (3), 29 (1). Law of legisla-
tive Assemblies, 486 (1), 509 (1).
Custom, effect and not cause of law, 26.
Customary law, included in positive law,

30, 577; origin of an international,
84; foundation of negro slavery, 206;
international in case of slaves during
the colonial period, 334; an inter-
national, recognized in slave cases,
353; none for slavery in England,
380.

D

D'Aguesseau, 4 (1), 9 (1), 10 (1), 12 (1),
14 (2), 18 (1), 24 (1), 31 (1).
Dane's Abridgment, 408 (2).
Daniel, Mr. Justice, on the Roman law
of Libertini, 214 (1, 2); on the status
of Africans by the law of nations, 321
(1); on slavery in the Territories,

531-534.

Danish settlements, law in, 219 (2), 221
(1), 291 (1), 344 (2).

Debtors required to satisfy by personal ser-
vice, statute Conn., 271; Pa., 288.
Decisions, judicial, their force, 25, 526 (2);
in international law, 33, 330; of the
colonial courts, 209.
Declaration of Rights of continental Cong.,
126 (2); of Virginia, 246.
Declaration of Independence, its effect on
personal condition, 467-471; the
Mecklenburg, 296, 402 (1), 406 (1).
Decretals. See Canon Law.
Deferriere, 28 (2).

Definitions, maxim in Digest, 3 (2); who
should make them in science, 469 (2).

603

Delaware, slavery in the settlements on
the, 206; statutes of the Col., 291-
293.

Delivery of fugitives on claim, 330.
De Maistre, 16 (4), 396 (2).
Demosthenes, 5 (2).

Denisart, Decisions Nouvelles, 343 (1),
344 (2).

De Tocqueville, 16 (2), 404 (2), 408 (2).
De Tracy, comment. Montesq.1(1), 417 (2).
Descent of personal laws, 196, 466; sla-
very by. See Birth.
Despotic power.
See Absolute power.
Dew on Slavery, 516 (1).
Digest. See Roman Law.
Diogenes, Laertius, 2 (2).
Dionysius Halicarnassensis, 144 (1).
Distributed sovereignty. See Sovereignty.
District of Columbia, 453, 563 (1).
Doctor and Student, 3 (2), 13 (3), 15 (1),
29 (2), 36 (2).

Domat, 1 (2), 4 (1), 7 (1), 16 (4), 144 (3),
315 (1).

Domicil, personal extent of laws deter-

mined by, 49, 112; law of determin-
ing status, and the exception, 109 (1) ;
its importance in the international law
of the colonies, 316; case of slave's
return to, 384.

Douglas, Summary, 274 (1).
Dred Scott's case, opinion of the court,

who are citizens, 412 (2); negroes not
citizens, 434; constitution operating
as bill of rights, 440 (2), 463 (1), 529;
effect of Declaration of Independence,
471 (2); criterion of State law, 490
(2); constitutionality of the Missouri
Comp., 528; opinions of Justices
Wayne and Grier, 531; of Justices
Daniel and Campbell, 531-538; Mr.
Justice Catron, 539; Mr. Justice
McLean, 541; Mr. Justice Curtis,
546; summary of the opinions, 557;
argument against the decision, 560–
570.

Droit, use of term, 146 (1).
Dromond's slave, Va., 231.
Duck's Treatise, 145 (1).
Duer on Insurance, 29 (2).
Duke's Laws, the, 278.

Dummer's Defence of the N. E. Charters,

118 (1), 129 (1).

Dunning, in Somerset's case, 376 (4), 377.
Dumont's Corps Diplomatique, 175 (1).
Duponceau on Jurisdiction, 16 (2), 18 (1),

31 (1), 47 (3), 140 (3), 145 (1), 481
(1, 3), 482 (3), 498 (1).
Dutch settlements, negro slavery in, 206;
civil law in, 277 (2).
Dwarris on Statutes, 127 (1).