migration
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889)
Definitions from Case Law
From 48 U.S. 283 - George Smith v. William Turner Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York James Norris · 1849Most cited · 410 citing opinions
free persons, but the word "importation" refers to slaves, because free persons cannot be said to be imported.'
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Imports freedom of action. In the constitution,, as. applied to black persons and contrasted with "importation," implies freedom.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
' ' Migration " and " importation," as used in sec. 9, art. I, of the Constitution, refer to the different conditions of persons of the African race as regards freedom and slavery. When the free black man came here, he migrated; when the slave came, he was imported — as property.^