 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1881 - 1188 pages
...and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give 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 be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every... | |
 | Lillian Foster - Presidents - 1866 - 322 pages
...to sue, be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, or convey real arid personal property, and to have full and equal benefit...citizens. So, too, they are made subject to the same punishments, pains, and penalties common with white citizens, and to none others. Thus a perfect equality... | |
 | John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...property," and to have " full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." So,...penalties in common with white citizens, and to none other. Thus a perfect equality of the white and colored races is attempted to be fixed by federal law... | |
 | African Americans - 1867 - 66 pages
...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,... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give 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 be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give 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 be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 670 pages
...1866, which assures to all citizens without regard to race or color, "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." 4. This law having been enacted under the second clause of the thirteenth amendment, in enforcement... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...property ;" and to have "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens." So, too, they are made subject to the same punishments, pains, and penal tiesiu common with white citizens, and to none other. Thus a perfect... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 980 pages
...contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, etc., and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens. Marriage is, with us, a civil contract, inheritance is regulated by law. White persons and persons... | |
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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... 
