A Treatise on the Laws of Commerce and Manufactures, and the Contracts Relating Thereto: With an Appendix of Treaties, Statutes, and Precedents, Volume 1A. Strahan, 1824 - Commercial law |
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... encouragement of particular branches of trade , as new discoveries by grants of patents , and exclusive privi- leges to companies and corporations ; the bye laws of the latter ; the prevention of injuries to trade by the laws relat- ing ...
... encouragement of particular branches of trade , as new discoveries by grants of patents , and exclusive privi- leges to companies and corporations ; the bye laws of the latter ; the prevention of injuries to trade by the laws relat- ing ...
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... encouraging the fisheries 265 Division of the laws respecting the fisheries as they relate to 1. Fisheries in general 267 Concise history and general view of the law and regu- lations relative to the fisheries 267 Summary of navigation ...
... encouraging the fisheries 265 Division of the laws respecting the fisheries as they relate to 1. Fisheries in general 267 Concise history and general view of the law and regu- lations relative to the fisheries 267 Summary of navigation ...
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... encouragement of agriculture and fisheries , which afford the provision for its support ( 2 ) . But the encourage- ( 1 ) 2 Malthus , 433. 2 Smith , 200 . 2 Paley , Mor . Phil . 345 . Sir J. Child on Trade , 167 , 8 . Tucker on Trade and ...
... encouragement of agriculture and fisheries , which afford the provision for its support ( 2 ) . But the encourage- ( 1 ) 2 Malthus , 433. 2 Smith , 200 . 2 Paley , Mor . Phil . 345 . Sir J. Child on Trade , 167 , 8 . Tucker on Trade and ...
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... encouraging any parti- cular branch at the expence of the others , whether in agriculture or in commerce , has uniformly retarded the advances of public opulence ; and that the sound policy of a legislator is not to ( 1 ) 2 Paley , 367 ...
... encouraging any parti- cular branch at the expence of the others , whether in agriculture or in commerce , has uniformly retarded the advances of public opulence ; and that the sound policy of a legislator is not to ( 1 ) 2 Paley , 367 ...
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... encouragement of fisheries is a national benefit , and therefore their extension may in general be an object for bounties and encouragement at the expence of the public ( 4 ) . So it is advisable for the legislature , as in the case of ...
... encouragement of fisheries is a national benefit , and therefore their extension may in general be an object for bounties and encouragement at the expence of the public ( 4 ) . So it is advisable for the legislature , as in the case of ...
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Page 5 - But it is only for the sake of profit that any man employs a capital in the support of industry ; and he will always, therefore, endeavour to employ it in the support of that industry of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest value, or to exchange for the greatest quantity either of money or of other goods.
Page 54 - It shall be free for each of the two contracting parties to appoint consuls for the protection of trade, to reside in the dominions and territories of the other party; but before any consul shall act as such, he shall, in the usual form, be approved...
Page 5 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Page 32 - And those acts of parliament, which have from time to time been made to enforce this universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom : without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world.
Page 460 - State, and is justly to be considered in that character; nor let it be supposed that it Is an act of light and casual importance. The consequence of such a service is indefinite, infinitely beyond the effect of any contraband that can be conveyed. The carrying of two or three cargoes of stores...
Page 638 - Such colonists carry with them only so much of the English law as is applicable to their own situation and the condition of an infant colony; such, for instance, as the general rules of inheritance and of protection from personal injuries. The artificial refinements and distinctions incident to the property of a great and commercial people...
Page 461 - The neutral country," he said, " ha» a right to preserve its relations with the enemy, and you are not at liberty to conclude that any communication between them can partake, in any degree, of the nature of hostility against you.
Page 8 - The capital which is employed in purchasing in one part of the country in order to sell in another, the produce of the industry of that country generally replaces by every such operation two distinct capitals that had both been employed in the agriculture or manufactures of that country, and thereby enables them to continue that employment.
Page 129 - Natural allegiance is therefore a debt of gratitude, which cannot be forfeited, cancelled, or altered, by any change of time, place, or circumstance, nor by any thing but the united concurrence of the legislature.
Page 133 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.