Institutes of International Law: Public and Private, as Settled by the Supreme Court of the United States, and by Our Republic : with References to Judicial Decisions |
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... existing rights should be respected , the safety and interests of the United States require them to an- nounce that no future colony or nation shall , with their consent , be planted or established on any part of the North American ...
... existing rights should be respected , the safety and interests of the United States require them to an- nounce that no future colony or nation shall , with their consent , be planted or established on any part of the North American ...
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... existing ; and it does not inquire beyond the de facto existence of a nation . The only matter of fact inquired into is whether a nation is independent and capable of self - government , and what is its actual territory . With a nation ...
... existing ; and it does not inquire beyond the de facto existence of a nation . The only matter of fact inquired into is whether a nation is independent and capable of self - government , and what is its actual territory . With a nation ...
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... existing common right of fishery for the convenience of both parties . The true construction of our fishery treaty stipulations has been well explained by John Quincy Adams , who was Secretary of State in 1818. He says : " The ...
... existing common right of fishery for the convenience of both parties . The true construction of our fishery treaty stipulations has been well explained by John Quincy Adams , who was Secretary of State in 1818. He says : " The ...
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... existing rights merely . As to the Bay of Fundy , the Americans have a right to its fisheries , independent of treaties , as appurtenant to our territory , which borders a part of it . But the treaty of 1818 , as well as that of 1783 ...
... existing rights merely . As to the Bay of Fundy , the Americans have a right to its fisheries , independent of treaties , as appurtenant to our territory , which borders a part of it . But the treaty of 1818 , as well as that of 1783 ...
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... existing right of any foreign State by dissolving the old sovereignty and forming a new one . If two men buy a farm already mort- gaged and divide it , each must , of course , pay his pro- portion of the mortgage . SEC . 10. If ...
... existing right of any foreign State by dissolving the old sovereignty and forming a new one . If two men buy a farm already mort- gaged and divide it , each must , of course , pay his pro- portion of the mortgage . SEC . 10. If ...
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Page 154 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 154 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 334 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 154 - Governments shall have power, jurisdiction, and authority, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive or person so charged, that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Page 369 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Page 58 - The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts, contracted, or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States...
Page 348 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Page 26 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second — never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
Page 683 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 187 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void, and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal in opposition to them.