 This right is so clear in principle, that no man can deny it who admits the legality of maritime capture; because if you are not at liberty to ascertain by sufficient inquiry whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to...  A Treatise on the Law of Insurance - Page 144by Wendell Phillips - 1823 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johan Friderich Wilhelm Schlegel - Naval convoys - 1801 - 194 pages
...captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those wha contend for the inadmissiable rule, that free ihlps make free goods, must admit the exercise of this right, at least forthe purpose of ascertaining whether the ships are free or not. 1 he right is equally cle^r in practice... | |
 | James Allan Park - Bottomry and respondentia - 1817 - 848 pages
...are not at liberty to ascertain by sufficient enquiry whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those who contend for the inadmissible rule, that free skips make free goods, must admit the exercise of this right at least for the purpose of ascertaining... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1836 - 420 pages
...are not at liberty to ascertain by sufficient inquiry whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those...for the inadmissible rule that free ships make free goodf, must admit the exercise of this right at least for the purpose of ascertaining whether the ships... | |
 | Francis Hildyard - Insurance law - 1845 - 894 pages
...are not at liberty to ascertain by sufficient inquiry whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those...or not. The right is equally clear in practice, for the practice is uniform and universal upon the subject. The many European treaties which refer to this... | |
 | International law - 1848 - 470 pages
...were not at liberty to ascertain, by sufficient inquiry, whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those...free goods, must admit the exercise of this right for the purpose of ascertaining whether the ships are free ships or not. The right is equally clear... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, William Beach Lawrence - International law - 1855 - 938 pages
...are not at liberty to ascertain by sufficient inquiry whether there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those...whether the ships are free ships or not. The right 1 Bynkershoek, Qmest. Jur. Pub. lib. i. cap. 14. Vattel, Droit des Gens. I*. iii. ch. 7, ยง 114. Martens,... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1857 - 666 pages
...there is property that can legally be captured, it is impossible to capture. Even those who contend that free ships make free goods, must admit the exercise...whether the ships are free ships or not. The right is as clear in practice as in theory ; for practice is uniform and universal upon the subject. The many... | |
 | James Whitman - Great Britain - 1858 - 44 pages
...the case of the " Maria," 1 Kobinson, Admit. Eep., p. 372: " Even those who contend for the" (then) " inadmissible rule that free ships make free goods, must admit the exercise of the right of visitation and search, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the ships are free or not."'... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1860 - 934 pages
...that no man can deny it who admits the legality of maritime capture ; because if you are not at hberty to ascertain, by sufficient inquiry, whether there...exercise of this right, at least for the purpose of ascertainingwhether the ships are free ships or not." , Ante, p. 655, 656. To illustrate these observations,... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - International law - 1863 - 582 pages
...impossible to capture. Even those who contend for The S this inadmissible rule, that free ships make free18' goods, must admit the exercise of this right at least,...or not. The right is equally clear in practice, for the practice is uniform and universal upon the subject73." " We cannot prevent the carriage of contraband... | |
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