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According to a well-known and capital principle of jurisprudence, stolen property cannot be sold, and the attempt to sell it, knowing the primary abstraction, is a crime.
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Sumner states a legal principle that stolen property cannot be legitimately sold, reinforcing the immorality of slavery.
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