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).

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).

૨

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).

R

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).

S

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. I., 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.

Servants, trading with, statute Va., 229;
Conn., 270.

women, having bastards, Del., 292;
N. C., 295; S. C., 302.
Service, contract for personal, common
law respecting it, 139.
Servitude, penal, 219; abolished by stat-

ute, Va., 229, 230; ordered, Mass.,
257, 261; Conn., 272. See Illicit in-
tercourse; Negroes.

Seward, Senator, on lawfulness of slavery,
193, 207 (2), 516 (1); on Dred
Scott's case, 572 (1).

Sewell's Hist. of Quakers, 261 (3).
Sharpe, Granville, 185 (1), 188, 207 (3).
Shaw, Ch. Justice, 27 (2), 32 (1), 501 (2),
508 (1), 577, 581.

Slave trade, not piracy during colonial pe-
riod, 392; time of its first restriction
by English statute, 370 (2).

Act of Congress abolishing, in Dis-
trict of Columbia. See Compromise
Measures.

Slavery, use of term, 39, 47; distinction

of from political bondage, 342 (1);
origin and nature of by Roman law,
150, 153; chattel, in ancient Europe,
154; how changed by influence of
Christianity, 156; antiquity of in Af-
rica, 161; principles determining its
international recognition, 103-111;
their application during the colonial
period, 353-365.

in England, a question of internal
law, 178-192; a question of interna-
tional law, 365-371.

-, negro, its extension in the fifteenth
century, 160; called by Sup. Court
in Ga. an institution of Christianity,
165 (1); in the colonies introduced
by universal jurisprudence, 206; sup-
ported by local common law, 212;
power over it, vested in the colonial
government, 225; was not necessarily
chattel slavery, 359; when not sup-
ported by common law of the empire,
362; not now supported by the na-
tional municipal law of the U. S., 570
-575; power over, where placed by
the public law of the U. S., 484;
power of the State governments over,
515-527; power of Congress over, in
the Territories, 525-595; in what
sense ascribed to positive law, 576.
Slaves, how protected by Roman law,

154; Roman law respecting, when
taken by the enemy or stolen, or fu-
gitive, 386; condition of on return-
ing to domicil, 384-386.

statute law of colonies respecting;

their character described, Va., 242;
Md., 253; Mass., 265; N. H., 266;
Conn., 271; S. C., 299.

being in England, not to enfranchise,
Va., 239, 243.

clothing of, N. C., 296; S. C., 297,
302, 306.

dismemberment of, Va., 241, 242,
244, 245; Md., 259, 260; N. H.,
267; Conn., 268 (2); Del., 292.
disorderly conduct of, punishment,
Va., 244; Md., 253; N. H., 266;
Conn., 270.

death of. See Killing, Owners com-
pensated.

Dromond's slaves, Va., 231.
enlistment of, N. J., 285; S. C.,
298.

estate in, personal or real, Va., 239,
242, 243; S. C., 297.

importation of, encouraged, Va., 230;
Md., 249, 250, 251; N. Y., 282.
importation, colonial objections to,
Pa., 209 (1); Va., 245, n., 247; S.
C., 209, (1), 308.

importation, tax on, Va., 238; Md.,
250, 254; Mass., 263; N. H., 266,
n.; N. Y., 282; N. J., 284, 285;
Pa., 288, 289, 290; Del, 292; S. C.,
298, 300, 302, 308.

importation of, prohibited, Conn.,
272; R. I., 276.

importation of Indian, prohibited,
Mass., 265; N. H., 266; Pa., 288.
- insurrection of, Va., 234, 236, 244;
N. Y., 281; N. C., 295; S. C., 308.
instruction of, in reading forbidden,
S. C., 307; Geo., 311.

killing, Va., 232, 234, 236, 243,
244, 246; Md., 253; N. H., 267;
N. Y., 280, n.; N. C., 295, 296; S.
C., 297, 306; Geo., 118 (3), 311, n.

manumission of, restrictions on, Va,
237, 241, 244; Md., 254; Mass.,
263; R. I., 276; N. Y., 281; N. J.,
284, 285; Pa., 289; Del., 292, 293;
N. C., 295.

marriages of, Pa., 287; Mass., 263
(2); and see Intermarriage.

outlying, Va., 234, 236, 241, 244,
245, 246.

owners of executed slaves how com-
pensated, N. C., 296; S. C., 301, 302,
306.

owners of thievish, N. C., 296.
passes, required for, S. C., 304, 306;
Geo., 311.

prohibited to meet, Va., 234, 244;
Md., 250, 253; Conn., 272; N. Y.,
280; N. J., 285; Pa., 288; Del,

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).

226.

abstract of the colonial, its object,

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).

Struve, 59 (1).

Suarez, de Legibus et Deo Legislatore, 9
(1), 14 (1), 15 (1), 29 (2), 36 (2),
158 (4).

Subject, of a right, 20.

alien and native, 48.
Subjection, an element of law, 48, 64.
Subjective and objective ideas of liberty,
38; of law, 78, 109 (1).

Suits for freedom, colonial statute, Del.,
292; S. C., 299, 303.
Sumner, Senator, 160 (4), 167 (2), 376
(4), 380 (3), 470 (1).
Superior, implied in law, 2.

Supremacy of Judiciary under the Const.,

430, 503.

Supreme power.

See Sovereign power.
See Danish.

Swedish settlements.

T

Tacitus, Mores Germanorum, 158 (1).
Talbot, Lord, opinion on baptism of slave,
185 (2).

Taney, Chief Justice, on the rule of com-
ity, 74 (1); on the rights of the negro
race, 207(1); on the constitution secur-
ing personal rights and rights of pro-
perty, 463 (1); on the effect of the
Declaration of Ind. on status of ne-
groes, 471 (2); on power of Congress
over slavery in the Territories, 528-
530, 556.

Taxables, in colonial stat., Md., 251; N.
C., 294 (1).

Taylor, Elem. of Civil Law, 153 (1).
Temple, Sir W., Essay on Gov., 417 (2).
Tennyson, property in his writings, 583;
quoted, 587 (1).
Terms. See Phraseology.
Territorial extent of law, 22, 23.
Territories of the U. S., Sovereignty in,
411, 439, 589, and see Congress;
Dred Scott.

equality of the States in respect
to, the political doctrine, 554-558.
Territory acquired by Gov. of U. S., 410.
Testimony. See Negroes, Indians, Slaves.
Texas. See Compromise Measures.
Theft of one's self, 386 (1).
Theories of State sovereignty, 408.
Thibaut, System des Pandekten Rechts,

transl. by Lindley, 19 (2), 26 (2), 40
(2, 3), 97 (2), 380 (5).
Things, as objects of action, 19.
Thompson, Hist. of Long Island, 277 (2),
278 (3).

Thoulouse, case of slave at, 337; law re-
specting serfs, 339 (1).

615

Tithables, in statutes of Va., 230, 231,
236, 238, 242, 245; an indication of
status, 359.

Torture, in British colonies, 115 (2).
Tracy. See De Tracy.

Transit, international rule of, 345, 354,
365.
Transportation, English statutes regard-
ing, 219 (1).

of Indian captives, statute Va.,
241; of emancipated negroes, 237.
forbidden in certain cases,
statute Va., 239, 242; Md., 251,
252; S. C., 300.
Treaty of Utrecht, 175.

intercolonial, of the Dutch and
N. E. colonies, 268 (5).

with France for Louisiana. See
Catron.

whether part of the law of the U.
S., 590.

Tribaud, advocate, in case of Boucaut,
338 (2), 344 (1), 376 (2).
Tribunals, their province, 24; in applying
private international law, 33, 61, 67,
71.

Trover, for slaves in England, 186, 188.
Trumbull, Hist. of Conn., 121 (1), 270 (1).
Trustees of Georgia, their exclusion of
slavery, 310 (1).

Tucker, St. George, in Va. Court of Ap-
peals, 526 (1); edition of Bl. Comm.,
208 (2), 223 (2), 225 (4), 245 (1),
400 (2), 405 (2), 408 (2).

--, H. St. G., Mem. of India Gov.,
154 (2), 216 (1).

Turner, Hist. of Anglo Saxons, 136 (3).
Twelve Tables, their origin, 144 (1); rule
of, in favor of liberty, 382 (1).