 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...making permanent the essential features of the Civil R'ghts Act of 1866. which gave to negroes " the same right, in every State and Territory in the United...proceedings for the security of person and property, RS is enjoyed by white citizens.'' Although the amendment is naturally in more general terms than the... | |
 | United States - 1836 - 494 pages
...previous condition of slavery, ' ' shall have the same i ( right to make and enforee contracts, to sue and be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase,...proceedings for the security of person and property." Here, sir, I contend, we have fully established the principle, and upon the same principle have full... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 662 pages
...reinforce and make universal the Civil Rights Act, which provides that all classes shall be entitled " to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property." The act in question removes a certain class from this protection. Shall the citizens of Connecticut... | |
 | John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the...proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 852 pages
...previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the...evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convoy real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...such relations, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...hold, and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, personal security,... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...such relations, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...hold, and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, personal security,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...the party shall hayebeen duly convicted, shall haire the same right in every State and Territory *n the United States to make and enforce contracts ;...parties, and give' evidence ; to inherit, purchase, leass, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property; and to full and equal benefit of all laws... | |
 | W. Divoll - Citizenship - 1866 - 158 pages
...convicted, shall have the sameright, in every state and territory in the United States, to makeand enforce- contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence* to inherit, purchase-, lease* sell,, hold,, and convey real and; pei-sonaj property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceeding* for... | |
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States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State... 
