293-296.

Northington, Chancellor, decision on sla-

very in England, 186; Stowell's criti-
cism on it, 586, 587.
Noy's Maxims, 172 (1).

Object of action, 18.

of right, 20.

--, use of term, compared with subject,
20 (2).
Objective meanings of liberty, 38; of law,
78; of the word jus, 146 (1).
O'Callagan, Hist. of New Netherlands, 221
(1).

Office, statute law providing who should
hold, Va., 238; Md., 251.
Origin of law, 24; of universal jurispru-
dence, 92, 93.

Otis, Rights of the Colonies, 198 (1).
Ownership in slaves, during the colonial
period, how far supported by uni-
versal jurisprudence, 188, 206, 362,
364; how far by common law of
England, 133, 225, 323, 389.
Oxford Chronological Tables, 159 (1).

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Paley, Mor. and Pol. Philo., 12 (2), 315
(1), 400 (2).

Palgrave, Sir Francis, 159 (1).
Papal Bulls recognizing slavery, 160 (5).
Paris, an asylum for liberty, 342 (1).
Parish of St. John's, Ga., 406 (1).
Parliament, power of, 13 (3), 127.
Partidas, Las Siete, 344 (2).
Partus sequitur ventrem, 211 (1).
Parsons, Ch. J., on slavery in Mass., 263
(3).

Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 24 (1).
Patents, the colonial, their force, 119.

of N. E., 254 (2); of Va., 228 (1).
Paternal power, its ancient extent, 360 (5).
Patrol, statute law of, S. C., 305.
Peckius, de Re Nautica, 29 (2); de Reg.
Juris, 87 (3).

Penn, W., his proposed legislation for ne-
groes, 287 (1); views of governments,
420 (1).
Pennsylvania, statutes of col., 286-291.
Hist. Soc. Memoirs, 219 (2).
People, the political, distinguished, 399;
who so called in the Constitution, 399,
465; their action in the Revolution,
400; their power unlimited, 414.

guished from things, 19, 20, 40;
slaves when not, 42, 153.

Personal condition, 39, 41.

extent of laws, 48-51; shown in
international law, 64; in colonization,
116; its exhibition in the British
empire, 116, 196, 388.

laws, 23.
rights, 101.
statutes, 99.

Personality, legal, under a law of uni-
versal extent, 107.
Perthes, Life of, 413 (3).
Peters' Hist. of Conn., 268 (2).
Phillimore, J. G., 380 (4).

Robert, Commentaries on In-
ternational Law, 11 (1), 22 (1), 33
(1), 95 (1), 109 (1), 313 (2), 336 (2),
342 (1), 344 (2), 349 (2).
Phraseology, ambiguity of legal, 52; il-
lustrated in discussion of the slavery
question, 575-587.
Pierce's Patent, 254 (2).
Piracy, the slave trade was not, during the
colonial period, 393.

Pitkin, Hist. of U. S., 121 (1), 403 (1), 407
(2).

Political liberty, 130, 414; how deter-
mined in the U. S., 474.

Plato, recognition of lawfulness of slavery,
154 (3).

Platt, Judge, on concurrent judicial power,
497.

Senator, on judicial decision, 526 (3).
Plymouth colonists, their compact, 120.
colony, charters of, 254 (2), laws
of, 254-256.

Pole, case of refugee, 336.

Portugal, negro slavery in, 162.

Positive law defined, 14; the term, how
used in the discussion of slavery ques-
tions, 576.

morality, name applied to inter-
national law, 10 (2).

Postliminium, if applicable in slave re-
turning to domicil, 384, 385.
Pothier, 29 (2), 100 (2).

Potter, E. R., Report on Abolition Pet,
275 (1), 276.

Powell, Judge, on slavery in England, 182.
Precedents, judicial, force of, 25, 526 (3);
in international law, 84, 334.
British, during the colonial pe-
riod, 333.

Prescott, Hist. Ferd. and Isab., 162 (4).
Presumption, in favor of liberty, 38 (2),
381, 382.

statutory against liberty,
S. C., 299, 303.

Price, Dr. Richard, 118 (2).

Primary meaning of word law, 1.
laws so called, 1 (2).

Primordial rights, 37 (1), 59.

Prince, Chronol. Hist. of N. E., 255 (2).
Prisoners of war, enslaved, 150; when not
by Christian nations, 158; law re-
specting, during seventeenth century,
204 (2).

Property, standard of, in the colonial law,
133, 323; in the law of the U. S.,
565.

-, guarantee of, in the constitution,
463.

in transitu, doctrine of interna-
tional law respecting, 346-354.

in slaves, not recognized by Vattel
and Puffendorf, 348; how far not re-
cognized by international law, during
the colonial period, 357-360; not
protected against the legislative pow-
er of Congress by a constitutional
guarantee, 561-571.
Proprietary Governments, 120.
Providence Plantations, laws of, 273, 275.
town of, resolution against
slavery, 276 (1).

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Provincial Governments, 120.
Prussian code, partial recognition of slave-

ry in, 161 (2).

Public law, 21, 22; common law of Eng-
land operating as such, 125; that in
the Constitution of the U. S., 422.
Puchta, Gewohnheit's Recht, 27 (2).
Puffendorf, 4 (3), 9 (2), 16 (4), 315 (1),
345-351.

Putnam's Magazine, 167 (1).
Pyrrho, 2 (2).

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Quakers, reason of the legislation against
them, 256 (1).

ordered to be sold, 261.
Quasi-international law, operation of com-
mon law of England as such in the
British Empire, 197; such law under
the Constitution of the U. S., 452.
Quintus Curtius, 151 (2).

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Races, distinction of, determining condition,
none among ancients, 164; Mr. Web.
ster's statement of Grecian opin-
ion, ib. (2); the modern, ib., 199,
321.

Ram on Legal Judgment, 25 (2), 26 (2),

611

28 (2), 29 (1, 2), 31 (1), 32 (1), 33
(1), 559 (2).

Raynal's W. Indies, 162 (3).
Rayneval, Inst., 10 (1).

Rawle on the Constitution, 481 (2), 492
(3), 496 (2).

Realization and existence of relations, 59.
Real estate, slaves declared, Va. Stat., 239.
Recht, Ger. use of term, 6 (2), 146 (1);

bürgerliches, 21 (2).

Reddie, Inquiries in the Science of Law,
1 (1), 2 (1), 3 (1), 4 (1), 5 (2), 6 (1),
7 (3), 11 (2), 15 (1), 16 (2, 3, 4), 19
(3), 20 (1), 25 (2, 4), 29 (1, 2), 31 (1),
34 (1), 36 (3), 47 (2), 50 (1), 69 (1),
72 (2), 469 (2); Inquiries in Interna-
tional Law, 9 (1), 10 (3), 11 (3), 34
(1), 46 (1, 3), 48 (1), 99 (3, 4); Hist.
Law of Marit. Com., 7 (3), 10 (2),
28 (2), 33 (1), 89 (1).
Redemptioners, 218. See Servants.
Reeves, Hist. of English Law, 144 (2);
Law of Shipping, 118 (2), 121 (2).
Domestic Relations, 273 (1), 359 (2).
Register Brevium, 185 (1).
Relations, the effect of law, 19.

how determinable by more than
one state, 56-58.

Religious freedom in the N. E. col., 122
(2).

Remarques du Droit Francais, par M. H.

M., Advocat, 339.

Rendition, not applicable to slave cases,387.
Reports, judicial, see the table of cases.
Republic, meaning of, 418.
Republican Government, guarantee of, in
the Constitution, 475.
Responsa Prudentum, 28 (2).

Review, Mass. Quart., 27 (2), 113 (1),
469 (2).

N. Am. Quart., 122 (2), 192 (1).
London Law, 144 (1).

New Englander, 214 (1).

North British, 418 (2).

South. Quart., 401 (1), 402 (2).
Revolution, its place in reference to law,

36 (1); American, organs of the, 401.
Rhode Island, statute law of col., 273-277.
Right, different senses of the term, 146.
Rights, of persons and of things, 19, 20;

and duties, correlative, 19; individu-
al and relative, 37; how attributed
with different personal extent, 51;
not attributed to all by national law
of U. S., 466; necessary conditions
of their recognition in international
law, 66; how guaranteed in the Cons.
of the U. S., 460. See Bills of rights.
Robertson's Hist. of Charles V., 145 (1),

157 (1), 164 (1); Hist. of Am., 164 (1).

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Sachsenspiegel, 23 (1).

Sale of oneself, slavery by, 151; prohibi-
tion of by Roman emperor, 158 (2).

of free persons as slaves. See Free
persons.

Savigny, Heutige Röm. Recht, 4 (2), 15
(1), 21 (2), 23 (1), 27 (2), 28 (2), 29
(2), 32 (2), 42 (1, 2), 63 (1), 78 (1),
86 (1), 93 (1, 2), 97 (2), 99 (1), 100
(1), 109 (1), 112 (1), 144 (2), 148 (1),
152 (1).

Geschichte des Röm. R. im Mit-
telalter, 23 (1), 47 (1), 86 (1), 144
(2), 146 (1).

on the Vocation of our Age for
Legislation, Hayward's Transl., 28
(2), 31 (1), 36 (2), 94 (1), 192 (1).
Scaccia, Tractatus de Commer., 6 (2), 80

(2).
Schaffner, 22 (1), 58 (1), 62 (1), 74 (1),
82 (1), 99 (4), 109 (1), 112 (1).
Schwabenspiegel, 23 (1).
Scotland, cases of negroes there, 332; col-
liers in slavery there, ib. (2).
Selden, de J. Nat. et Gen. juxta disciplinam
Hebræorum, 2 (2), 3 (1), 18 (1, 2),
27 (1).
Serfdom, not ascribed to universal juris-
prudence, 159, 168; replaced chattel
slavery in Christian Europe, 159.
Sergeant's Constitutional Law, 495 (1), 496

(2), 500 (1), 504 (1).
Servants, meaning of the term in colonial
statutes, 331.

indentured, origin of their condition,
218, 219.

importation of, encouraged, statute
N. H., 266; S. C., 298, 301; Ga,
309; duties on, Pa., 289, 290.
insurrection of, in Virginia, 232 (1).
in Massachusetts, having the elective
franchise, 121 (1), 255.

statute respecting their term of ser-
vice, Va., 229, 230, 239, 240; Md.,
248; Mass., 257; R. L., 275; Del,
292; S. C., 297.

marriages of, statute Va., 229, 239,
240, and see intermarriage.

runaway, statute Va., 229, 230, 231,
232, 236; Md., 248, 249, 252; Mass.,
257, 260; Conn., 271; N. Y., 279;
N. J., 284; Pa., 287; S. C., 298.
treatment of, statute Va., 230, 231,
239, 240, 243; Md., 248; Mass.,
255, 257, 260; N. H., 266, 267; N.
Y., 279; N. J., 284, 285; Pa., 287;
Del., 292; S. C., 308.

292; to have stock, Md., 253; S. C.,
301; to rent homes, S. C., 307; to
have arms and ammunition, Del.,
292; N. C., 296; S. C., 300, 304.
Slaves, runaway, N. Y., 279, 280; N. C.,
295; S. C., 297, 298, 300.
speaking defamatory words, Conn.,
272.

striking white persons, Va., 234,
244; Md., 253; Mass., 263; Conn.,
270; N. Y., 280; N. J., 284; S. C.,
300, 301, 306.

trading with, Mass., 262; Conn.,
270; N. Y., 280; N. J., 283; S. C.,
297, 300, 301; Ga., 311.

trial of, Va., 237, 238, 241, 244,
245; Md., 253; N. Y., 281., N. Y.,
283, 284, 285; Pa., 287; Del., 291;
N. C., 296; S. C., 297, 300, 301,
302, 305; Ga., 311.

stealing of, S. C., 297, 300, 308;
Ga., 311.

working time limited, S. C., 307.

who, declared, Va., 233, 235, 239,
243; Md., 249, 251, n., 252; Mass.,
260; N. Y., 278; S. C., 299, 303.
Smith, Compend. of Merc. L., 29 (2), 68
(1).

E. Fitch, Comm. on Const. and
Statutory Construction, 13 (3), 461
(1).

Dict. of Antiquities, 7 (3), 18 (1),
89 (1), 154 (1), 158 (2), 214 (1),
399 (2).

Hist. of N. Y., 124 (3).
Wealth of Nations, 126 (2).
Social compact. See Compact.
Somerset's case, Mansfield's opinion in,

189; the question of internal law,
191; of international law, 331, 370,
the decision justified, 373, 377.
Soto, de Justitia et de Jure, 156 (2), 176
(1).
South Carolina, qualified recognition of

law of England, 124; statute law of
colony, 297-309.

Sovereign power, 12; how held in the col-

onies, 120, 226, 127; how indivisible,
313; may be distributed, 314; dis-
tribution during the colonial period,
315; its location after the Revolu-
tion, 395; location of, a question of
fact, 396; of the States and of the
nation, how manifested, 406; theory
of its distribution; 408; two essen-
tial forms of its investure, 417; that
reserved to the States, 425.
Sovereignty, term how used, 394 (1).
Spain, slavery of moors and negroes in,
162, 344 (2), 384.

Spelman's Glossary, 158 (1).
Spence's Equity Jurisdiction, 29 (1); In-
quiry, &c., 158 (2).
Spinoza, 2 (3), 7 (1), 43 (1).
Spooner, On the Unconstitutionality of
Slavery, 174 (2), 576 (1).
Staples, Annals of Providence, 276 (1).
Starkie's Evidence, 20 (1).
State, the, source of law, 5, 15; power of,
accordant with law of nature, 7.
State sovereignty, theories of, 408.
States of the Union, existence of at the
Revolution, 404; admission of new,
412; sovereignty of, recognized, 431;
meaning of term in the Const., 433;
international relation of, 447; resid-
uary powers of, 476; how restricted,
477; political people of each, 513.
State magistrates, their concurrent judi-
cial power, 501.
Status, 40 (2), 56; a topic of international

law, 63, 101; may be determined by
universal jurisprudence, 103; English
law of, 134; of Africans and Indians
in the colonies, 209, 322, 390; how
now determined by the several States,
483.

Statut, term how used by French authors,
99 (1).
Statutes, their constitutionality to be ex-
amined by judiciary, 113.

English recognizing negro slavery,
174, 209 (1); allowing transporta-
ation of servants and criminals, 219
(1); effecting union of England, Scot-
land and Ireland, 317 (1).

abstract of the colonial, its object,

226.
Stevens, Hist. of Georgia, 206 (3), 208
(2), 212 (2), 219 (4), 291 (1), 309
(2), 310 (1).

Stobæus, Florilegium, 43 (1),
Stokes, on the Constitution of the British
Colonies, 126 (2).

Story, Conflict of laws, 22 (1), 23 (1). 58
(1), 65 (1), 71, 74, 99 109 (1); Com-
mentaries on Const., 117 (1), 119 (1,
2, 3, 5), 120 (4), 121 (2), 126 (1, 2),
196 (3), 204 (1), 209 (2), 223 (1),
227, 265 (1), 407 (4), 481 (3), 492
(2), 498 (1, 2), 499 (2), 500 (1), 504
(2); Art. Law, in Appendix to Ency.
Am., vol. vii., 4 (3), 5 (3), 25 (3), 32
(1), 429 (2): on Equity Jurisp., 31
(1); in Prigg's case, 500 (1), 501
(2), 561 (1).

Stowell, Lord, 6 (2), 193, 208 (2), 385 (3),
586, 587.

Stroud, Sketch of Slave Laws, 226 (2),
249 (1), 251 (2), 306 (2), 527 (1).