 But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only...  The Green Bag - Page 5821904Full view - About this book
 | Norman Bentwich - International law - 1913 - 276 pages
...nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' " Note.—For the corresponding decision on the nature of contraband trading which is referred to in... | |
 | Pitt Cobbett - International law - 1913 - 588 pages
...there was nothing, either in the Neutrality Act or in the law of nations, which precluded United States citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale, this being in the nature of a sale of coatraband. which no State was bound to prohibit; but (2) that... | |
 | William Mark McKinney - Law - 1917 - 1204 pages
...neutrals to belligerents, if no blockade be violated, of all sorts of goods except contraband.10 There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending arms, ammunition and munitions of war to foreign ports for sale.11 "It is," said Mr. Justice Story,... | |
 | Political science - 1915 - 636 pages
...judicial scholar in international law) in the Santissima Trinidad (7 Wheaton, p. 240) that "there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1915 - 642 pages
...Works,' [ed. 1854] iii, 558), it was ruled by Mr Justice Story in 1822. "There is,' said the latter, 'nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . inanitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is... | |
 | Harold Reason Pyke - Contraband of war - 1915 - 366 pages
...war, to foreign ports for sale, of nineIt is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound CC ntury. to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' In the debate in the House of Commons on the Terceira affair in 1830 the opinion of Canning was cited... | |
 | Harold Reason Pyke - Contraband of war - 1915 - 368 pages
...of his Nonjudgement in the case of the Santissima Trinidad:4' baity of ' There is nothing in our law or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, dominant practice as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale, of nineIt is a commercial... | |
 | George Sutherland - Civil rights - 1916 - 20 pages
...the same doctrine. Mr. Justice Story, in the Santissima Trinidad (7 Wheat, 283), says: Dut there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that...engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. The neutrality proclamation issued by our Government at the beginning of the war, as I have already shown,... | |
 | International law - 1916 - 1068 pages
...•Referring to the opinion of Story in the case of the Santissima Trinidad (7 Wheaton, 340) that "there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that...well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale; that it is a commercial venture which no nation is bound to prohibit," Woolsey (International Law,... | |
 | International law - 1916 - 1014 pages
...(probably our greatest judicial scholar in international law) in the Santissima Trinidad 8 that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to... | |
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