 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...  Supreme Court Reporter - Page 13by United States. Supreme Court - 1918Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1881 - 1188 pages
...power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty. "" And in 1870, Congress declared by law that, "All persons within the jurisdiction of the...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens ; and shall... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 752 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1866 - 862 pages
...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,... | |
 | Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Timothy Farrar - Constitutional law - 1867 - 556 pages
...statute expressly specifies, that he " shall have the . . . vight, in every State and territory, ... to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of' person and property;" and, by declaring him to be a citizen, it necessarily entitles him "to all privileges and immunities... | |
 | United States - 1868 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...exacted tbat all persona within the jurisdiction of the United States shall ha%'e the same right iu every State and territory to make and enforce contracts,...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...exacted that all persons within the jurisdiction of the Uuited States shall have the same right iu every State and territory to make and enforce contracts,...evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, aud shall... | |
 | Louisiana - Law - 1870 - 814 pages
...one thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence,... | |
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