Metz, case of slave at siege of, 338.

Miller, Hugh, 159 (1).

nor the basis of American Constitu-
tions, 413.

Ministerial officers, 505.

Mirrour, 127 (1), 189 (1), 211 (1).
Missouri Compromise, 563 (1), and see

Dred Scott.

Mittermaier, Privatrecht, 159 (1).
Mohammedan law in India, 115 (1).

doctrine on enslaving in-
fidels, 160; as to effect of conversion,
167 (1),

Molloy, de Jure Marit. 4 (3), 188 (1), 379
(3).

Molyneux, case of Ireland, 43 (2).
Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, 1 (1), 80 (2),
159 (1), 426 (2); Lettres Persanes,
376 (3).

Moors, slavery of, 162, 234, 341.
Morhof, Polyhistor., 16 (4).
Motley, Rise of Dutch Republic, 204 (2).
Moulton, Hist. of N. Y., 206 (1), 221 (1).
Mühlenbruch, Pandectarum Doctrina, 153
(1).

Mulford, Hist. of N. J., 221 (1).
Municipal law, origin of the term, 7 (3);

Blackstone's definition of, 12; how
used as equivalent to national law,
222 (1), 513 (3).

N

National Government, use of term, 408.

law, how distinguished, 17; di-
vided into internal and international
law, 49, and see Municipal law.

municipal law of the U. S., 440.
sovereignty, how exhibited in
the Revolution, 403.

states, distinction of, by De Tracy
and others, 417 (2).
Nations, foreign, how a source of law
for some one state, 28-35.

of antiquity, all allowed slavery,
154.

law of. See International Law and
Universal Jurisprudence.
Native subject distinguished from alien, 49,
64.

subjects in the colonies distin-
guished, 199.
Natural law, its recognition in jurispru-

dence, 2, 5, 11, 13, 16, 24; how
identified with universal jurispru-
dence, 93, 96; its exposition in the
Roman Civil and Canon law, 20 (1),
86, 94 (1); doctrine of, in the Insti-
tutes, 147, 148; how not the legal
basis of rights of the colonists, 197;

jurisprudence, 15; how applicable in
the absence of local territorial law,
200 (1).

rights, how far recognized in the
national law of the U. S., 460.

and necessary law of nations, 45.
Naturalization, colonial law of, 218 (1);
statute, in Va., 233, 234, 239; Md.,
248; N. Y. 279, 282; S. C., 298.
powers of the States in re-

spect to, 450.
Nature, law of, 1-7.
Navarete, 162 (1).

Nebraska Territory, Act to organize,563(1).
Negro plot in New York, 282 (1).

slavery. See Slaves, Slavery.
Negroes, held in slavery in England, 176.
basis of their legal condition in
the colonies, 215, 321, 390.

when property by the law of com-
merce, 323, 349.

free, their character described in
colonial statutes, Va., 242; N. J.,
284; Pa., 289; Del., 293; reduced
to servitude by law, R. I., 276; Pa.,
290; (see Illicit intercourse,) prohib-
ited from holding slaves, Va., 233,
240; from bearing arms in the militia,
Va., 241, 244; or training, Mass., 261;
Conn., 270; from keeping arins and
ammunition, Va., 244; Mass., 257;
Pa., 288; S. C., 300; from holding
real estate; N. Y., 281; N. J., 284.
Nelson, Mr. Justice, on the fugitive slave

law, 495 (7), 501 (2), 508 (1); in
Dred Scott's case, 528 (2), 589.
Netherlands, international law of, in case
of slaves, 277 (2), 335.
New England, slavery introduced into col-
onies of, 206.

Great Patent of, 254 (2).
United Colonies of, 268 (5).
New Hampshire, statute law of the col.,
265-267.

Hist. Soc. Collections, 267 (1).
New Haven, origin of government at, 268.
New Jersey, statute law of the col., 282-
286.

New Mexico, Territory of. See Compro-
mise Measures.

New York, considered a part of New Eng-
land, 124 (3).

statute law of the col., 277-282.
Hist. Soc. Collections, 229, 278.
Nodier, Jean Sbogar, 459 (2).
Normans, their alteration of Saxon ville-
nage, 136.

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).

Р

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,
303.

S. C., 299,

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-

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).