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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... foreign trade . The different restraints and encouragements of importation and exportation , to or from the United Kingdom ; the re- straints by express prohibitions , or by the imposition of high duties , and the encouragements of ...
... foreign trade . The different restraints and encouragements of importation and exportation , to or from the United Kingdom ; the re- straints by express prohibitions , or by the imposition of high duties , and the encouragements of ...
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... foreign as well as inland Com- merce and the Manufactures of Great Britain . With respect to foreign trade , the commercial law is considered , as it relates to Quarantine - Lighthouses , Beacons , and Sea Marks - Pilots - Ports ...
... foreign as well as inland Com- merce and the Manufactures of Great Britain . With respect to foreign trade , the commercial law is considered , as it relates to Quarantine - Lighthouses , Beacons , and Sea Marks - Pilots - Ports ...
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... foreign tions , and every community to particular manufactures , beyond which its skill does not extend , the quantity of conveniences or luxuries which the commercial classes of each country could furnish to the proprietors of land ...
... foreign tions , and every community to particular manufactures , beyond which its skill does not extend , the quantity of conveniences or luxuries which the commercial classes of each country could furnish to the proprietors of land ...
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... foreign trade of consumption is the importation of foreign goods for domestic consumption , or the exportation of domestic goods for foreign consumption . The carrying trade is the conveying the surplus produce of one foreign country to ...
... foreign trade of consumption is the importation of foreign goods for domestic consumption , or the exportation of domestic goods for foreign consumption . The carrying trade is the conveying the surplus produce of one foreign country to ...
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... foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home trade , the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the coun- try . But the returns of the foreign ...
... foreign trade of consumption should be as quick as those of the home trade , the capital employed in it will give but one half the encouragement to the industry or productive labour of the coun- try . But the returns of the foreign ...
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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, " hať 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.