 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 էջ
...and protected by the fourteenth amendment, and by the sixteenth section of said act it is declared, "That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall have the same right in every State and territory of the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence,... | |
 | Lillian Foster - 1866 - 322 էջ
...lease, sell, hold, or convey real arid personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens. So, too, they are made subject to the same punishments, pains, and penalties common with white citizens,... | |
 | 1866 - 278 էջ
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
 | British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 էջ
...personal property ; ' and to full and equal benefit of all laWe and proceedings for the security of person and ; property as is enjoyed by white citizens ; and shall be subject to like punishments, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1866 - 862 էջ
...citizens thereof, is unconstitutional. And in respect to the special rights conferred by the Bill, "the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell, hold, and convey real and personal estate,... | |
 | 1866 - 288 էջ
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
 | 1867 - 66 էջ
...1866. It made four millions of slavos ci'izens, and entitled them to full and equal beneßt of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." HON. SCHUTLEB COLFAX, on being re-elected, on the 4th of March, 1807, as Speaker to the Fortieth Congress,... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 716 էջ
...lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property,' and to have 'full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.' So, too, they are made subject to the same punishment, pains, and penalties in common with white citizens,... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 726 էջ
...lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property,' and to have ' full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.' So, too, they are made subject to the same* punishment, pains, and penalties in common with white citizens,... | |
 | 1868 - 422 էջ
...except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be sued, be parties and give evidence ; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey personal... | |
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All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security... 
