History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America: From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842 |
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... considered an enemy - hostis ; yet his person might lawfully be enslaved , and his property con- fiscated , if found on the Roman territory . During the Internation- al law of the ancient States of Greece and Italy . • Si cum gente ...
... considered an enemy - hostis ; yet his person might lawfully be enslaved , and his property con- fiscated , if found on the Roman territory . During the Internation- al law of the ancient States of Greece and Italy . • Si cum gente ...
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... considered in those times an honorable profession . That legislator tolerated , whilst he regulated the association of sea - rovers , which he found established by inveterate usage . The Etruscans , from whom the Romans derived their ...
... considered in those times an honorable profession . That legislator tolerated , whilst he regulated the association of sea - rovers , which he found established by inveterate usage . The Etruscans , from whom the Romans derived their ...
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... considered as abandoned by the gods . Hence they might lawfully be put to death by the victors . To reduce them to slavery was consequently considered as a mitigation of the extreme right of war.g During the first Persian war , the ...
... considered as abandoned by the gods . Hence they might lawfully be put to death by the victors . To reduce them to slavery was consequently considered as a mitigation of the extreme right of war.g During the first Persian war , the ...
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... considered as their mortal enemies . The Lacedemonian government was the avowed patron of the oligarchy in every city ; and as the popular party natu- rally looked up to Athens for support , and there was no supreme federal authority ...
... considered as their mortal enemies . The Lacedemonian government was the avowed patron of the oligarchy in every city ; and as the popular party natu- rally looked up to Athens for support , and there was no supreme federal authority ...
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... considered Macedon as their only formidable military rival . Ptolemies , in particular , first supported the Achæan league and then Sparta , with the sole view of counterbalancing the power of the Macedonian monarchs . A greater dan ...
... considered Macedon as their only formidable military rival . Ptolemies , in particular , first supported the Achæan league and then Sparta , with the sole view of counterbalancing the power of the Macedonian monarchs . A greater dan ...
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Page 521 - ... is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the Government de facto as the legitimate Government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy; meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries from none.
Page 307 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Page 521 - ... principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed, by force, in the internal concerns of Spain. To what extent such interposition may be carried on the same principle, is a question in which all independent powers whose governments differ from theirs are interested, even those most remote, and surely none more so than the United States.
Page 94 - ... set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author.
Page 373 - That it shall be lawful to stop and detain all vessels loaded wholly or in part with corn, flour or meal, bound to any port in France, or any port occupied by the armies of France...
Page 306 - ... world, that they will not adopt any such practice : that neither will send the prisoners whom they may take from the other, into the East Indies or any other parts of Asia or Africa: but that they...
Page 723 - A vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of a marine league from the shore, is regarded as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and subjected, exclusively to the jurisdiction of that nation. If, against the will of her master, or owner, she be driven or carried nearer to the land, or even into port, those who have, or ought to have, control over her, struggling all the while to keep her upon the high seas...
Page 402 - ... saddles and bridles, excepting, however, the quantity of the said articles which may be necessary for the defence of the ship and of those who compose the crew ; and all other articles whatever not enumerated here shall not be reputed warlike and naval ammunition, nor be subject to...
Page 519 - It never was however intended as an Union for the Government of the World, or for the Superintendence of the Internal Affairs of other States...
Page 720 - ... the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper Executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive.