A Compendious View of the Civil Law: And of the Law of the Admiralty, Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Read in the University of Dublin, Volume 2J. Butterworth, 1802 - Admiralty |
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... authority to enforce his imperfect rights by violence , or to controul the actions of another in no manner affecting his own ? No foreign nation can justly interfere in the plans of municipal fyftem , nor individual ftranger in the ...
... authority to enforce his imperfect rights by violence , or to controul the actions of another in no manner affecting his own ? No foreign nation can justly interfere in the plans of municipal fyftem , nor individual ftranger in the ...
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... authority of Grotius , the oracle of found policy and common fenfe , would for ever have filenced the impious tongue that could propofe fuch horrors . We might have hoped , that the glory afcribed by Tacitus to the Romans , Non fraude ...
... authority of Grotius , the oracle of found policy and common fenfe , would for ever have filenced the impious tongue that could propofe fuch horrors . We might have hoped , that the glory afcribed by Tacitus to the Romans , Non fraude ...
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... authority a poifon to all the bland materials of the human heart , Many have been the falutary rulers , who were fons of rectitude , not fervants of fear , and the doctrine that power and honefty are incompati- ble , checks every feed ...
... authority a poifon to all the bland materials of the human heart , Many have been the falutary rulers , who were fons of rectitude , not fervants of fear , and the doctrine that power and honefty are incompati- ble , checks every feed ...
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... authority among the ancients , as alfo its early establishment in modern Europe , but especially in Britain , the queen of ifles and fovereign of the fea . Many languages have been fearched for the derivation of the celebrated word ...
... authority among the ancients , as alfo its early establishment in modern Europe , but especially in Britain , the queen of ifles and fovereign of the fea . Many languages have been fearched for the derivation of the celebrated word ...
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... authority against the encroachments of the common law , have ranfacked ancient and modern lore to fhew that the admiral's authority has exifted in almoft every civilized nation , though under various names . The thalaffiarchus of the ...
... authority against the encroachments of the common law , have ranfacked ancient and modern lore to fhew that the admiral's authority has exifted in almoft every civilized nation , though under various names . The thalaffiarchus of the ...
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Page 514 - Parliament of the United Kingdom to require; provided that all writs of error and appeals depending at the time of the union or hereafter to be brought, and which might now be finally decided by the House of Lords of either kingdom, shall from and after the union be finally decided by the House of Lords of the United Kingdom; and...
Page 514 - ... may appear to the Parliament of the United Kingdom to require ; provided, that all writs of error and appeals, depending at the time of the Union, or hereafter to be brought, and which might now be finally decided by the House of Lords of either kingdom, shall from and after the Union be finally decided by the House of Lords of the United Kingdom...
Page 74 - And also, as the courts of common law have obtained a concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Chivalry with regard to foreign contracts, by supposing them made in England; so, it is no uncommon thing for a plaintiff to feign that a contract really made at sea was made at the Royal Exchange, or other inland place, in order to draw the cognizance of the suit from the courts of admiralty to those of Westminster Hall.
Page 514 - That it be the eighth article of union, that all laws in force at the time of the union, and all the courts of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the respective kingdoms, shall remain as now by law established within the same, subject only to such alterations and regulations from time to time as circumstances may appear to the parliament of the united kingdom to require...
Page 320 - ... inconsistent with amity or neutrality ; and if they consent to accept this pledge, no third party has a right to quarrel with it any more than with any other pledge which they may agree mutually to accept. But surely no sovereign can legally compel the acceptance of such a security by mere force.
Page 267 - Majefty's fubjedts, fhall be adjudged to be reftored, and fhall be by decree of the faid court of admiralty accordingly reftored to fuch former owner or owners or proprietors, he or they paying for and in lieu of falvage, if...
Page 514 - ... delegates in his court of chancery in that part of the united kingdom called Ireland; and that all laws at present in force in either kingdom, which shall be contrary to any of the provisions which may be enacted by any act for carrying these articles into effect, be from and after the Union repealed.
Page 311 - If I lay siege to a place, or only form the blockade. I have a right to hinder any one from entering, and to treat as an enemy whoever attempts to enter the place, or carry any thing to the besieged, without my leave.
Page 323 - Particular treaties too have inverted the rule of the law of nations, and by agreement declared the goods of a friend on board the ship of an enemy to be prize...