...declared that they "shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is...

...servitude... shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is...

...before the law. The rights in the Civil Rights Act were fundamentally economic: "The right to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold and convey real and personal property; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property." When...

...States, contrary to the decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford. It granted to all citizens the right "to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is...

...and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties [to lawsuits], and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is...

...guaranteeing the freed slaves "the same right in every state and territory of the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, sell and convey real and personal property as is enjoyed by white citizens."12 When President Andrew...

...Specifically, the act provides, in pertinent part, that all persons shall have the same right to: ...make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is...

...and the 1866 law further provided that citizens of every race and color had the same right "to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is...

...President's veto, Section 1 of the act ensured that each citizen possesses "the same right ... to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give...evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment,...

..."Section 1981," states: 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...