 | Henry Graham Crocker - Law of the sea - 1919 - 750 pages
...of Church v. Ilubbart.1 MARSHALL, CH. J., delivered the opinion of the court : . . . The authority of a nation, within its own territory, is absolute...exclusive. The seizure of a vessel, within the range of it* cannon, by a foreign force, is an invasion of that territory, and is a hostile act which it is... | |
 | Bar associations - 1924 - 674 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall's language in Church v. Hubbart, 2 Cranch, 187, as follows: " The authority of a nation within its own territory is absolute and...and is a hostile act which it is its duty to repel," upon which both Justice Story in The Ann, and Justice Van Deventer in the Sea Stores cases rely, seems... | |
 | United States - Law - 1923 - 1008 pages
...said in the opinion of the court, which was delivered by Chief Justice Marshall: " ' The authority of a nation within its own territory is absolute and...invasion of that territory, and is a hostile act which it ie its duty to repel. But its power to secure itself from injury may certainly be exercised beyond... | |
 | Arthur Walker Blakemore - Liquor laws - 1923 - 860 pages
...opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Church v. Hobbart, 2 Cranch 187, 234: "Its (a nation's) power to secure itself from injury may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory • * « These means do not appear to be limited within any certain marked boundaries which remain... | |
 | Canadian Bar Association - Law - 1924 - 534 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall's language in Church v. Hitlibart. 2 Cranch, 187, as follows: " The authority of a nation within its own territory is absolute and...and is a hostile act which it is its duty to repel," upon which both Justice Story in The Ann, and Justice Van Deventer in the Sea Nfore* cases rely, seems... | |
 | Charles Ghequiere Fenwick - International law - 1924 - 698 pages
...trader by a Portuguese cruiser at four leagues from the coast of Brazil, holding that a state 's ' ' power to secure itself from injury may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory." But in the later case of Rose v. Himley,4 the same court held that the seizure under municipal law... | |
 | International law - 1926 - 946 pages
...broadest principles. Chief Justice Marshall's famous assertion in Church v. Hubbart that a nation's power to secure itself from injury " may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory " 17 has been invoked repeatedly. Church r. Hubbart has been mentioned as the leading case sustaining... | |
 | International law - 1926 - 934 pages
...broadest principles. Chief Justice Marshall's famous assertion in Church t>. Hubbart that a nation's power to secure itself from injury "may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory"17 has been invoked repeatedly. Church v. Hubbart has been mentioned as the leading case... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1935 - 174 pages
...4-leagues provision in the revenue laws of the United States, declared that the power of a nation " to secure itself from injury, may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory " (p. 234), an action was brought against the underwriters of an American vessel which had been seized... | |
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The authority of a nation, within its own territory, is absolute and exclusive. The seizure of a vessel, within the range of its cannon, by a foreign force, is an invasion of that territory, and is a hostile act which it is its duty to repel. But its... 
