 | William N. Eskridge - Law - 1994 - 460 pages
...of this shift was Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.51 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 provides in part that "[a]ll citizens of the United States shall have the...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property."52 In an opinion byjustice Potter Stewart, the Court held that the... | |
 | Robert J. Cottrol - History - 1994 - 484 pages
...l865l. 20. Civil Rights Act. I4 Stat. 27 fI866l. A portion of this act survives as 42 USC § l982: "All citizens of the United States shall have the...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property." 2l. Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., lst Sess., pt. I, 474 fJan. 29. I866l.... | |
 | Stanford M. Lyman - Social Science - 1995 - 412 pages
...Court two years later. In a decision upholding a Congressional statute (42 USC 1982) requiring that "all citizens of the United States shall have the...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property," the Court held the law to be a valid exercise of Congress's power... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance - Business & Economics - 1994 - 216 pages
...300 NYS 886. 165 Misc. 430 (1938l. 12. 42 USC § 1982 (1976l provides: "All citizens of the Uuited States shall have the same right, in every State and...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property." 13. /tignft and Remedwt Hearings, supra note 5. at 200, 202 (testimony... | |
 | Marcia L. Russell - Discrimination in housing - 1998 - 80 pages
...Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed equal rights under the law. The Act specifically provided that: "All citizens of the United States shall have the...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property." For over a century, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would be of little... | |
 | Abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - Education - 1995 - 512 pages
...which was enacted by Congress while the Fourteenth Amendment was also under consideration, provides: "All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is 92 From White to Vinson: 1910-1953 enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell,... | |
 | the late Bernard Schwartz - Law - 1996 - 501 pages
...Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 US 409 (1968), this Court considered whether § 1982, which provides that "[a]ll citizens of the United States shall have the...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property," prohibits private discrimination on the basis of race, and if so,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Architecture - 1996 - 218 pages
...the right or privilege implicated is the guarantee, set forth in 42 USC 1982, to all citizens of "the same right in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." We also have jurisdiction under 18 USC 247 and 248. Under 18 USC... | |
 | Bernard Schwartz - Law - 1997 - 290 pages
...statute that provides, in its second section (now 42 USC §1982), "All citizens . . . shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." In the 1968 case of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., the Court held... | |
 | Pauli Murray - Law - 1997 - 778 pages
...status equivalent to that enjoyed by white people." (p. 703).] §42. Property rights of citizens. — All citizens of the United States shall have the same...thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. [RS §1978, derived from Act April 9, 1866, ch. 31, §1, 14 Stat.... | |
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All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every state and territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. 
