 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, William Waller Hening, William Munford - 1809 - 678 páginas
...not only proper but conelusive evidence ; because there was an act of Assembly in force, declaring that children shall be bond or free, according to the condition of the mother ; the verdict which found the mother a slave, was therefore conclusive evidence to prove the son was... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 594 páginas
...twelfth act of assembly made the 23d of December 1662, entituled an act for molatto children being bond or free, according to the condition of the mother, and the ll'.h a. t of assembly made att James Citty 1691 entituled an act for the more effectual! suppressing... | |
 | William Goodell - 1853 - 458 páginas
...solve all doubts, the Act of 1662 was passed, which declared that all children born in this country shall be bond or free, according to the condition of the mother. It is the rule of the civil law. By that law the state of the child was determined by that of the mother... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 páginas
...servants of the same age. At a subsequent assembly, the rule with negroes was made that children should be bond or free " according to the condition of the mother ; " and an act was passed obliging each of the counties to build a house in Jamestown, for which laborers might... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1892 - 554 páginas
...would introduce a very perplexing di1emma ; as where the one parent is free and the other a slave. Here the child is to be a slave says this law by inheritance...justified in asserting, not only from common parlance, but a1so from its sense in other parts of this very act. And that on the other hand it considers those... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1892 - 558 páginas
...former law of 1705, which had imposed servitude on the mother ; and consequently that the clause " children shall be bond or free, according to the condition of the mother," affected the children of slaves only. For wherefore else was this law made ? If the children of a mulatto... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 538 páginas
...the former law of 1705, which had imposed servitude on the mother; and consequently that the clause "children shall be bond or free, according to the condition of the mother," affected the children of slaves only. For wherefore else was this law made ? If the children of a mulatto... | |
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... children got by an Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother... 
