 The seat of judicial authority is indeed locally here in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations, but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine this question exactly as...  The American Jurist: And Law Magazine - Page 3771843Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1916 - 1162 pages
...sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting in Stockholm; to assert no pretensions on the part of...Sweden as a neutral country which he would not admit to belqng to Great Britain in the same character." The right to prize is a prerogative right of the British... | |
 | Sir Samuel Thomas Evans - Prize-courts - 1918 - 620 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm; — to assert no pretensions...to belong to Great Britain in the same character." It is impossible to reconcile this passage with the proposition that the Prize Court is to take its... | |
 | Archibald Hurd - Gr. brit - 1918 - 288 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm ; to assert no pretensions on...to belong to Great Britain in the same character." Those words of one of the greatest authorities on prize law embody the policy of honesty. Let us use... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 664 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm, to assert no pretensions on...no duties on Sweden as a neutral country which he wonld not admit to belong to Great Britain in the same character." It is impossible to reconcile this... | |
 | Pitt Cobbett - International law - 1924 - 770 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm — to assert no pretensions...to belong to Great Britain in the same character.' It is impossible to reconcile this passage with the proposition that the Prize Court is to take its... | |
 | Naval War College (U.S.) - International law - 1924 - 232 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm, to assert no pretensions on...to belong to Great Britain in the same character." It is impossible to reconcile this passage with the proposition that the prize court is to take its... | |
 | Sterling Edwin Edmunds - Civil rights - 1925 - 484 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm ; — to assert no pretensions...to belong to Great Britain in the same character. This, of course, is a beautiful doctrine; but what is not disclosed is that Sovereign governments lay... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1108 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm; to assert no pretensions on...to belong to Great Britain in the same character." 1 C. Rob. Ad'in. 295. With this statement of the principles of law generally applicable in cases of... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 568 pages
...person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm ; to assert no pretensions on...to belong to Great Britain in the same character." This was said in a case where Swedish vessels were carrying conditional contraband to ports of nations... | |
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