Loudon v. Charles Scott. Jury Instructions

 

If the Jury shd. be of opinion from the Evidence that that the plf was a slave of the Plf in the year 1800 and was brought into the County of Alexandria from the State of Maryland since the year 1800 by Charles Scott Junior Senior without the ass who was not the owner of the Slave, and that neither the said Charles Scott Senior, nor the owner of the slave, took the oath in the required by the act of Assembly, within 60 days from the time when the said Ch. Scott Senior brought the plf into the said County of Alexandria as aforesaid, and that the Plf was has been kept in the County of Alexa. one whole year together, or so long at different times as have amounted to one year, then the plf is intitled to his freedom.

 

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Whereupon the Court instructed the Jury that if they should be of opinion from the evidence

That the Defts father brought the Plf into from the State of Md. into the County of Alexa. in July the year 1802, and [strikethrough] exercised acts of ownership over the plf and hired him out as his slave with the knowledge and assent of the Deft, and if the Plf has been kept in the County of Alexa. one whole year, or so long at different times as amounts to a whole year from the importation to the time of bringing the action and that neither the Deft nor his said father took the oath required by the act of assembly of Md. and Virga. within 60 days after the Plf was first brought in as aforesaid. and that no other oath was taken th made but that which the deft has offered in evidence as aforesaid, then the Plf is intitled to his freedom. and altho the Jury the Plf should [illegible] in that the was the property of the Dft at the time he was so brought in.