Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott. Dred Scott v. Sandford, otherwise known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 and seen as a landmark decision in the debate surrounding the constitutionality and legality of slavery.
A diagram displaying equal margins of width 25mm on an A4 page. In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends. When a page is justified the text is spread out to be flush with the left and right margins.
Definition of margin. 1  1 : the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter. 2  2 : the outside limit and adjoining surface of something : edge at the margin of the woods continental margin.