Commentaries Upon International Law, Volume 3Butterworth, 1873 - International law |
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... CONFISCATED OR ALIENATED BY NAPOLEON I. Pp . 841-852 . CHAP VII . POSTLIMINIUM . - DECISIONS IN ENGLISH COURTS OF Justice . Pp . 853-859 . CHAP . VIII . DOCTRINE OF POSTLIMINIUM AS TO PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY WHICH HAVE BEEN , DURING ...
... CONFISCATED OR ALIENATED BY NAPOLEON I. Pp . 841-852 . CHAP VII . POSTLIMINIUM . - DECISIONS IN ENGLISH COURTS OF Justice . Pp . 853-859 . CHAP . VIII . DOCTRINE OF POSTLIMINIUM AS TO PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY WHICH HAVE BEEN , DURING ...
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... confiscated on the coast of France . The owner of the vessel , a Quaker , complained to Cromwell , who gave him a letter of which he was to be the bearer to Mazarin , told him to wait three days for an answer , which answer must be the ...
... confiscated on the coast of France . The owner of the vessel , a Quaker , complained to Cromwell , who gave him a letter of which he was to be the bearer to Mazarin , told him to wait three days for an answer , which answer must be the ...
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... confiscation of public debts are applicable to Embargo ( i ) . With respect to the operation of Reprisal and Embargo upon private debts , this delicate and difficult question will be considered hereafter , when the effect of war upon ...
... confiscation of public debts are applicable to Embargo ( i ) . With respect to the operation of Reprisal and Embargo upon private debts , this delicate and difficult question will be considered hereafter , when the effect of war upon ...
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... confiscations occasioned by the said War . ' Vattel uses the word prizes , which generally means ships . But no ships were to be restored by name ; nor could any that had been con- fiscated by the Admiralty have been restored at all ...
... confiscations occasioned by the said War . ' Vattel uses the word prizes , which generally means ships . But no ships were to be restored by name ; nor could any that had been con- fiscated by the Admiralty have been restored at all ...
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... confiscation : -and the most eminent persons of the law sitting in the Supreme Courts have uniformly sustained " such judgments . ” 66 An uniform current of English precedents is cited as supporting this opinion . The highest authority ...
... confiscation : -and the most eminent persons of the law sitting in the Supreme Courts have uniformly sustained " such judgments . ” 66 An uniform current of English precedents is cited as supporting this opinion . The highest authority ...
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Page 357 - Declaration: 1. Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. 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 249 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Page 406 - But there is nothing 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 prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 296 - ... in either of which cases the authorities of the port, or of the nearest port, as the case may be, shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours...
Page 153 - ... of the woods ? to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren ? My lords, these enormities cry aloud for redress and punishment. But, my lords, this barbarous measure has been defended, not only on the principles of policy and necessity, but also on those of morality ; " for it is perfectly allowable...
Page 6 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 249 - Her Britannic Majesty has commanded her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to declare that Her Majesty's Government cannot assent to the foregoing rules as a statement of principles of international law which were in force at the time when the claims mentioned...
Page 408 - shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful " in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores...
Page 872 - It may not be unworthy of remark, that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law...
Page 55 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.