 | United States. Congress. House - 1881 - 1188 pages
...States may contract by treaty. "" And in 1870, Congress declared by law that, "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... | |
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...making permanent the essential features of the Civil R'ghts Act of 1866. which gave to negroes " the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties' and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1872 - 752 pages
...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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1866 - 852 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 in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convoy real and personal... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1867 - 610 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 in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal... | |
 | James M. Hiatt - 1868 - 426 pages
...servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 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 evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal... | |
 | 1868 - 828 pages
...servitude, except as a punhhment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, to be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 684 pages
...servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 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 evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal... | |
 | 1868 - 424 pages
...servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts; to eue, be parties, and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal... | |
 | William Horatio Barnes - 1868 - 726 pages
...servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contract*, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey... | |
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... and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens... 
