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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... "
The Law Magazine and Review: For Both Branches of the Legal Profession at ... - Page 442
1879
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 9

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1881 - 1200 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 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...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 26

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,...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 27

Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...re-enactment of the Civil Rights Act, after the adoption of the amendment. That act, after providing 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...
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A Political Manual for 1866 [to 1870]

Edward McPherson - United States - 1870 - 142 pages
...more than one year, or fined not exceeding $1,000, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 16. 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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A Political Manual for 1870: Including a Classified Summary of the Important ...

Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1870 - 144 pages
...disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States or any State. SEC. 15. 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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A Handbook of Politics for 1868 [to 1894]

Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...more than one year, or fined not exceeding $1,000, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 16. 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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Digest of the Statutes of the State of Louisiana: Collated and ..., Volume 1

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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Albany Law Journal, Volume 40

Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...the white race enjoy, and speaks of section 1977 of the Revised Statutes of Congress (which enacts that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right to eue, be parties and give evidence) as putting in the form of a statute what bad been...
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The American Annual Cyclopędia and Register of Important Events ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 822 pages
...profit under the UmuJ States or any State. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all penom 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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Proceedings in the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C.: In the United States ...

United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Reconstruction - 1872 - 860 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 Siates to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence,...
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