 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
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1869 - 882 pages
...commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or i'iL r national neutrality, aud that there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels to foreign ports for sale. If the Messrs, Forbes, or any of the owners of the Meteor, or Mr. Cary their... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1874 - 442 pages
...as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture which no nation is bouud to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." But it must be remembered that when Mr. Fish claims compensation for all her depredations, he should... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1874 - 434 pages
...well-known case " Santissiina Trinidad and Santander," laid it down as indisputable that" there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids onr citiaens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It... | |
 | United States - Military law - 1921 - 810 pages
...neutrals from sending armed vessels aa well as munitions of war to foreign ports for snle. It is n commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes those engaged In It to the penalty of confiscation. The Santisslma Trinidad (1822), 20 tl. S. (7 Wheat.)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1915 - 636 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 . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Business & Economics - 2004 - 414 pages
...comes within the law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the Santissima Trinidad: — "There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Equally clear is it, nevertheless, that the transaction bears the impress of a hostile enterprise.... | |
 | Lance E. Davis, Stanley L. Engerman - History - 2006 - 476 pages
...would have been justly condemned as a good prize. . . . But there is nothing in our laws or the laws of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
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