Slavery - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: slaverySlavery
Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, pp. 65 et seq., where it was held that a person forcibly detained as a slave was entitled to be discharged on a habeas corpus.1. A situation in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune and liberty of another 2. The practice of keeping individuals in such a state of bondage or servitude, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1393.The system of colonial slavery ws abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 73. See 5 Geo. 4, c. 113; 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 91; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 73; 6 & 7 Vict. c. 98; 7 & 8 Vict. c. 26; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 122; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 34; and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 75. The various Acts for carrying into effect the treaties for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade were amended and consolidated by the 36& 37 Vict. c. 88 (many previous Acts being thereby repealed). See,...
Slavocracy
The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery...
Emancipation
Emancipation. A solemn act by which a pater-familias divests himself of his power over his filius-familias, so that the filus-familias may become sui juris. There are three forms of emancipatio: (1) The old emancipation, which was by several man-cipationes, followed by several enfranchisements. The man-icipatio, or solemn sale, destroyed the patria potestas and put the filius familias in mancipio, which was a kind of slavery. The enfranchisement by the purchaser made the filius-familias sui juris. As the enfranchiser acquired all rights of patronage, the father, on occasion of the last mancipatio, added the trust-clause (fiducia contracta), i.e., an express condition that the purchaser should remancipate the filius-familias to the pater-familias, so that having ceased to be a pater-familias, and being only an ordinary purchaser, he might enfranchise his child, and so acquire the rights of patronage.(2) The Anastasian emancipation, introduced by Anastasius. It consisted in obtaining an ...
Culvertage
Culvertage [fr. Culus and verto, Lat., to turn tail), base slavery, the confiscation of an estate, Mat. Par. 1212....
Bondage
Bondage, slavery; also a kind of tenure or occupation....
Abolition
Abolition [fr. abolir, Fr.; aboleo, Lat.], a destroying; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution, 25 Hen. 8, c. 21.Abolition means, 'to destroy, extinguish, abrogate or annihilate', Gurdit Singh Aulakh v. State of Punjab, (1974) 2 SCC 592: AIR 1974 SC 2058. [Rules of Business of the Govt. of. Punjab, (1953) R. 28(1)(XXII)]Means the act of abolishing, the state of being annulled or abrogate; the legal termination of slavery in the United States; in civil law a sovereign's remission of punishment for a crime, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5....
Slavery
The condition of a slave the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another...
Slaveholding
Holding persons in slavery...
Slaveborn
Born in slavery...
Servitude
The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master the condition of being bound to service the condition of a slave slavery bondage hence a state of slavish dependence...
- << Prev.
- Next >>