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Liberticide

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A destroyer of liberty. Libertinum ingratum leges civiles in pristinam servitutem redigunt; sed leges Anglis semel manumissum semper liberum judicant.

Co. Litt.137.

Thecivil laws reduce an ungrateful freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of England segard & Man once manumitted as ever after free,; rt