| Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to... | |
| 1887 - 606 pages
...meets it on the high seas or within his enemy's waters. " There is nothing," says Mr. Justice Story, " in the law of " nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well " as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial " adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 694 pages
...condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| England - 1864 - 814 pages
...applied it specifically to the sale of armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1822 - 666 pages
...condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...('Works,' [ed. 1854] iii, 558), it was ruled by Mr Justice Story in 1822. ' There IB,' said the latter, ' nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1857 - 666 pages
...with neutrality. " There is nothing" (their Supreme Court says, by the mouth of Mr. Justice Story,) " in our laws, or in the Law of Nations, that forbids...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
| Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
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