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2 revisions | pmr443 at Jun 06, 2019 10:26 PM | |
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4seem to have been in pursuance of Statutes similar to those of England. Calling case 1 Mass. 116; Andrews' Case, 2 Mass 14. In Virginia, the Statute proposes[?] to punish the buying or receiving from another [?], or aiding in concealing any stolen goods, knowing them to be stolen. Va code (1860), Ch. 192, & 20. Such language, I conceive, would not be applicable to a case like this. That the goods were stolen in a fact which (in the abscence of some Statute authorizing it), cannot be inquired into, as I understand, it having occurred beyond the cognizance of our laws. If then, the Ala Statute is like own, I think [?]...in maintainable for receiving the cotton. Such a state of things calls findly for legislation[?] interposition, where it has not been already afforded, as it has not been in Va; the Stat. 748 Geo IV, ch. 29, ought to be enacted universally, in these States. | 4 |