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MILLER v. HERBERT ET AL.

46 U.S. 72 (____)

5 How. 72

HENRY MILLER, ADMINISTRATOR OF GEORGE MILLER, DECEASED, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. BETSEY HERBERT AND CAROLINE HERBERT, DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Coxe, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Lawrence, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Justice DANIEL, after having read the statement of the case at the commencement of this report, proceeded to deliver the opinion of the court.

By the statute of Maryland, passed in 1715, cap. 44, § 22, it is enacted, — "That all negroes, and other slaves then imported, and their children, then born or thereafter to be born, shall be slaves for life." Upon examining the legislation of Maryland, from the period...

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