Slave Law of Jamaica, 1828 PDF Download

Author: Jamaica Jamaica
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260820976
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Excerpt from Slave Law of Jamaica, 1828: With Proceedings and Documents Relative Thereto Consistently with this legislative declaration of the importance to the mother country of her colonies in the West Indies, many acts of Parliament have been passed, encouraging and stimulating their culti vation by British capital; and one act was passed expressly to invite and to secure investments or loans from foreigners for that purpose; Geo III. Cap. 14) -and, as a further stimulus to such loans from British subjects or from aliens, a charge of 6 per cent. Interest was subsequently rendered legal.-(l4 Geo. III. Cap. - Slaves and their issue are expressly, by these and other authorities, treated as property liable to mortgage or other lien and, together with the lands, buildings, &c. To which they give value, they have accordingly been pledged as security to British subjects and others, in full reliance upon this legislative1 sanction, to an immense amount. A passage or two, in the judgment given, on the 6th November last, in the case of the woman named Grace, by the venerable and learned judge who presides in the High Court of Admiralty, may, on this subject, be referred to as unquestionable authority. - See Report of Lord Stowell's judgment, published by Haggard, from his Lord ship's notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.