1838 Ark Rev. Stat. 733-34
| dc.coverage.spatial | Arkansas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T03:08:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T13:59:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T23:19:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1837 | |
| dc.description.abstract | § 23: Prohibited possession of offensive or defensive weapon without written permission of his master. Violators shall have the weapon seized and whipped not exceeding thirty stripes. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | License | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SEC. 23. Any gun or other offensive or defensive weapon found in the possession of a slave, without having the written permission of his master to carry the same, may be seized by any person, and upon proof of such seizure before a justice of the peace of the county where the same shall have been made, such gun or weapon shall be by the order of such justice, adjudged and forfeited to the seizor for his own use, and such slave shall receive by the order of such justice, any number of stripes not exceeding thirty. | |
| dc.description.summary | This law permits any person to seize weapons found in the possession of an enslaved person if they do not have written permission from their enslaver. Upon proof before a justice of the peace, the weapon is forfeited to the person who seized it, and the enslaved individual is subjected to corporal punishment of up to thirty lashes. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3300 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Revised_Statutes_of_the_State_of_Arkansa/ohxEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA733&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Revised_Statutes_of_the_State_of_Arkansa/ohxEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 | |
| dc.subject | ENSLAVED PERSONS & OTHER MINORITIES | |
| dc.title | 1838 Ark Rev. Stat. 733-34 |