 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 728 pages
...allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws could operate ' but the laws of the country to which the vessels belong.'...Ashburton in 1842. Ships on the high seas are treated, for purpose? of jurisdiction, as if they were part of the territory of the nation to which they belong.... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 1170 pages
...allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws could operate 'but the laws of the country to which the vessels belong.' Precisely the same position was maintained by tVehster in his correspondence with Lord Ashhurton in 1842. Ships on the high seas are treated, for... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 794 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong." This, with other grievances, led to the declaration of war June 18, 1812. In speaking of the effect... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1918 - 506 pages
...The burden of the complaint in regard to impressment, as defined in Madison's war message of June 1, 1812, was that Great Britain sought, under cover of...correspondence with Lord Ashburton in 1842, Ships on the high 275 seas are treated, for purposes of jurisdiction, as if they were part of the territory of the nation... | |
 | Charles Emanuel Martin, William Henry George - United States - 1927 - 794 pages
...vessels on the high seas, where, as President Madison declared in his war message, no laws could apply "but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong.'' The message did not recommend a war with Great Britain in express terms, but it pointed strongly to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can •operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vesstU belong; and a selfredress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - International law - 1990 - 228 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned,... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned,... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - History - 2001 - 248 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong,96 It was not the return of British sailors that Americans opposed, but the means by which the... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 1102 pages
...municipal law of allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws coul<l operate " but the law of nations, and the laws of...with Lord Ashburton in 1842. Ships on the high seas arc treated, for purposes of jurisdiction, as if they were part of the territory of the nation to which... | |
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... and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in... 
