ADAMS v. WOODS


6 U.S. 336 (1805)

2 Cranch 336

ADAMS, qui tam, v. WOODS.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 18, 1805.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lincoln, attorney-general, for the plaintiff.

Swann, contra.


Marshall, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the court. —

This is an action of debt brought to recover a penalty imposed by the act, entitled "an act to prohibit the carrying "on the slave trade from the United States to any "foreign place or country."

It was pleaded in bar of the action, that the offence was not committed within two years previous to the institution of the suit. To this plea the plaintiff...

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