Definition of Amistad Case

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Amistad Case
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A United States case in 1839 wherein negroes who had been kidnaped and enslaved in Africa, mutinied and were held free and not pirates. See 2 L. Ed. (IT. S.) 826.