A Treatise on the Right of Personal Liberty, and of the Writ of Habeas Corpus and the Practice Connected with It : With a View of the Law of Extradit

First Complete Study of the Status of Slavery in the United States.Published a year before John Brown's raid and three years before the outbreak of the Civil War, this was the first book-length work to treat the status of slaves at length. As such, it is a landmark work in the bibliography of American civil liberties. Hurd reviews the statutes concerning fugitive slaves and their extradition, analyzes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and discusses the application of habeas corpus to slave issues. The list of cases cited by Hurd includes such landmarks as Jack v. Martin and Prigg v. Pennsylvania. Rollin C. Hurd [1815-1874] was a prominent lawyer, Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas and the President of the Cleveland, Mount Vernon and Columbus Railroad.CONTENTSBOOK I. The Right of Personal PropertyI. General Nature and Limitations of the RightII. Limitations of a Public NatureIII. Limitations of a Private NatureIV. Constitutional and Statutory Guarantees of the Right of Personal Liberty in EnglandV. Constitutional and Statutory Guarantees of the Right of Personal Liberty in AmericaBOOK II. The Writ of Habeas CorpusI. Nature of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, and Sources and Extent of Jurisdiction over itII. Practice in Procuring and Serving the WritIII. The ReturnIV. The IssueV. The HearingVI. Jurisdiction in Respect to the Validity of Legal Process when Asserted as Cause of DetentionVII. Validity of Legal ProcessVIII. Right to BailIX. Claims for Private Custody Founded on the Domestic relationsX. Statutory Provisions Relating to Prisoner's DischargeXI. Section I. Writ of ErrorBOOK III. The Law of Extradition of FugitivesI. Extradition of Fugitives from Justice from Foreign StatesII. Extradition of Fugitives from Justice from the Several States of the UnionIII. Extradition of Fugitives from Service