The Antelope (1825) 23 U.S. 66, are cases were allegations filed by the Vice-Consuls of Spain and Portugal, claiming certain Africans as the property of subjects of their nation. The "penal exception" to the Full Faith and Credit Clause has its source in American jurisprudence in a statement made by Chief Justice Marshall in The Antelope. In The Antelope, Chief Justice Marshall remarked that "the courts of no country execute the penal laws of another."