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., 272; 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 jurisdiction 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).

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, 484; 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).

Godwin's Commonwealth, 219 (4).
Goethe's Faust, 466 (1).
Gordon's Hist. Am., 266 (1).

Government, forms of, distinguished, 417;
of a constituted, 421.

Governments, the colonial, their origin,
117-125; held the local sovereignty,
128; were divested of it by the Rev-
olution, 399; not all changed simul-
taneously, 403.

the national and the State, do
not possess sovereign power, 424,
513-520; powers of the national,
425-427; those of the States are not
restricted by the Const. of U. S. as a
bill of rights, 476, 477; power of the
State G. over slavery, 517; of the
national G. in the Territory, 589–59.
Graham, Hist. of U. S., 219 (5), 122 (2),
401 (1).

Granger, speech in Ho. of Rep. 515 (3).
Gray, F. C., on Mass. Fundamentals, 258
(2).

Gravina, 16 (4), 147 (3).
Greenleaf's Evid., 74 (1), 88 (1).
Grier, Mr. Justice, observations on Som-
erset's case, 194; on habeas corpus
by State judiciary, 495 (7); opinion
in Dred Scott's case, 531.
Grimké, on a distributed sovereignty, 408
(1).
Groenewegen, law of the Netherlands in

slave cases, 335.

Grotius, 2 (2), 3 (1), 7 (3), 9 (2), 14 (1),
16 (4), 24 (1), 28 (2), 29 (1), 33 (1),
156 (3), 158 (4), 346, 417 (2).
Guadentius, de Justinianæi Sæc. Mor.,
156 (4).
Guarantees distinguished from liberty, 420

(3); the, of liberty in English law,
131; in the constitution of a repub-
lican government, 515; guarantee of
private property in Cons. of U. S., as
protecting slavery, 529.

Hakluyt, 164 (1), 177 (1).

Hale, Ch. J., 20 (1), 128, 145 (1).
Hallam's Mid. Ages, 159 (1); Literature
of Europe, 204 (2).

Hall, J. P., address before N. E. Society,
122 (2).

Ham, issue of, 165 (1).
Hamilton. See Hedaya.

Alexander. See Federalist.
Hammond, Senator, speech on slave ques-
tion, 524 (2); writings, 516 (1).
Hardwicke, Lord, 185.

Hargrave's argument in Somerset's case,
376 (2), 378 (1).

Harper, Chancellor, 43 (2); 516 (1).
Harrington's Analysis, 203 (2).
Harrison. See Holinshed.
Hartford, government at, 267.
Hayward. See Savigny.
Hazard's Annals of Pa., 206 (1); Collec-
tions, 254 (2), 256 (3), 268 (5), 275
(2), 278 (3).

Heathens, slavery of, 160.
Hebrew law in Conn., 268 (2).
Hedaya, Mussulman Law of slavery in the,
23 (1), 167 (1, 2).

Heffter, 21 (2), 22 (1), 28 (3), 33 (1), 34
(1), 35 (1), 93 (3), 156 (1).
Hegel, 6 (2), 35 (1), 47 (2).
Heineccius, 88 (1), 94 (1), 144 (1), 147
(1), 151 (3), 152 (1), 154 (1), 158 (2),
211 (1).

Hening, statutes of Va., 119 (5), and see
Va, statutes.
Herrera, 167 (3).
Hertius, 97 (2), 99 (3).
Hewit, Hist. of S. C., 205 (1).
Hildreth, Desp. in Am., 185 (2), 576 (1);

Hist. of U. S., 121 (3), 122 (2), 123 (1),
124 (1), 160 (4), 173 (1), 175 (2), 204
(1), 205 (1), 206 (1), 212 (2), 219
(3, 5), 220 (4), 226 (2), 233 (1), 249
(1), 254 (2), 261 (1, 2), 262 (2), 268
(4), 271 (1), 275 (1), 279 (1), 287 (1,
2), 301 (1), 309 (2), 376 (3), 402 (2),
403 (1).
Hindoo law, 115 (1).
Historical element in law, 47.

law of nations. See Universal
jurisprudence.

school of jurisprudence, 47

(2).
Hobart, Chief Justice, on power of par-
liament, 127.