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Definition of Taney
1. Noun. United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taney
Literary usage of Taney
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"Soon after the usurpation of Cromwell, in 1656, the paterna! and maternal ancestors
of Mr. Taney were driven from their native land, because of their ..."
2. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1892)
"In 1857, the Supreme Court was composed of Chief Justice Taney, Justices Wayne
... Chief Justice Taney belonged to one of the old Roman Catholic families of ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"Justice to Taney alone moved him. His will must be the law. The stone twice
rejected by the builders must become the corner stone of the temple, ..."
4. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1918)
"(From the Society's Collections) ROGER BROOKE Taney FROM THE PRESIDENT Feb. ...
The President will have the room warmed on Saturday if Mr Taney will be here ..."
5. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1862)
"Chief Justice Taney, in the beginning of his several Opinion, p. ... Judge Taney
supports the fourth construction by affirming the owner's right to seize ..."
6. Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts by M[atthew] F[ontaine] Maury (1851)
"The "Taney," well equipped for the duties assigned her, sailed from New York in
... "The object of the service upon which the " Taney" has been detailed, ..."
7. The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787 by Charles Chauncey Burr, Thomas Dunn English (1864)
"Judge Taney is now in Hie eighty-eighth year of his age, ... It is no wonder that
the decision of Judge Taney so exasperates the Abolitionists, ..."
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