The association of relation and {rend indicates, 1 think, that "friend"
{0 be understood in its ordinary and. familiar meaning, and 1 Siso of opinion that' it must be So. understood in Sommersett's Caze, (1772), to which counsel for the applicants referred me. 'The negro slave who escaped from the forcible detention of his master, was seized by persons in his master's employ and on board a ship bound for Jamaica, Iliad found such friends in England' who assisted him to regain his freedom by means of the writ of habeas corpus for which wey applied. The case of Re Gootoo and Invokweana
the present by the circumstance that (nent 101, ig distinguished from the rule for a writ was obtained at the Instance of the secretary of the British and. Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which clearly existed for just such a purpose. In. the Hoitentot Venus Case, (1810), the rule was also obtained by a secretary of a Society, in that ease the African Institution. on behalf of a helpless female native South Africa, The rule here is Sought on behalf of four Chinese who fare. in custody under suspicion of Being implicated in a murder by persons who, in my opinion, are mere Strangers oF' volunteers.
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