| James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...Opinion of the Attorney General concerning the seizure of the Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim for...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...for its own safety. Kent says, that considering the great extent of the line of the American coast, we have a right to claim for fiscal and defensive...a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction, and he thinks it not unreasonable to assume, for domestic 1 Hall's Rights of the Sea Shore, &c., 2, 3.... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...extent into the sea, beyond the reach of cannon shot.a *30 "^Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...extent into the sea, beyond the reach of cannon shot.* *30 *Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
| Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...United States upon this matter in the following language:— " Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we *have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, a ^0141 liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be LJ unreasonable, as I apprehend,... | |
| Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 406 pages
...States upon this matter in the following language : — « Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we *have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, ar#.?i ji liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be LJ unreasonable, as I apprehend,... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...of nations." l And the same learned commentator adds : " Considering the great extent, of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands; as, for instance, from... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...extent into the sea beyond the reach of cannonshot. (b) * 30 * Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be uureasonable, as I apprehend, to assume, for domestic purposes connected with our safety and welfare,... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...(.i May, 1793, and the Letter of the Secretary of State to the French Miniater, of 15th of May, 1793. coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
| James Kent - International law - 1866 - 516 pages
...shot1. Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, their writers contend that they have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction; nor would it be unreasonable, as they say, to assume, for domestic purposes connected with their safety... | |
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