 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1862 - 1066 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...prescribed by the law of nations, or particular treaties." Wlieaton then goes on to justify the conduct of the United States for not interfering to prevent the... | |
 | Nathan Hale - Monthly chronicle (Boston, Mass.) - 1842 - 596 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...and penalties prescribed by the law of nations, or by particular treaties. If it be true, therefore, that citizens of the United States have been engaged... | |
 | George Allen - Mexico - 1843 - 56 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...and penalties prescribed by the law of nations, or by particular treaties. If it be true, therefore,, that citizens of the United States have been engaged... | |
 | Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 336 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...and •penalties prescribed by the law of nations or by particular treaties. If it be true, therefore, that citizens of the United States have been engaged... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1848 - 410 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...and penalties prescribed by the law of nations or by particular treaties. If it be true, therefore, that citizens of the United States have been engaged... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...and penalties prescribed by the law of nations or by particular treaties. If it be true, therefore, that citizens of the United States have been engaged... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 938 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficing in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...or particular treaties. If it be true, therefore, § 27. Rule It had been contended in argument in the above case. of the war • (••riiiiof 1756.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1862 - 734 pages
...trafficking in articles contraband of war Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged to it under the liabilities and penalties prescribed by the law of nations." [Hear, hear.] According to Mr. Webster's instructions, if American merchants, in the way of commerce,... | |
 | John Fraser Macqueen - Belligerency - 1862 - 128 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...prescribed by the law of nations, or particular treaties." Wheaton then goes on to justify the conduct of the United States in not interfering to prevent the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1864 - 608 pages
...prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it,...prescribed by the Law of Nations or particular Treaties." (Wheaton's "International Law," sixth edition, 1855, page 571, by Lawrence.) 2. " It is a general understanding... | |
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Bocanegra is quite well aware that it is not the practice of nations to undertake to prohibit their own subjects, by previous laws, from trafficking in articles contraband of war. Such trade is carried on at the risk of those engaged in it, under the... 
