 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 - 1864 - 722 pages
...in our lawa or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreisn ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 998 pages
...criminal act."— Commentariet, Vol. I., p. 142. So by Chief Justice Story in 1 822: — " There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from eending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure... | |
 | 1864 - 556 pages
...within the law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the Santitsima Trinidad : — " There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizen» from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 618 pages
...a good prize " and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of " nations. But there is nothing in our laws or in the law of " nations that forbids." — He must mean in the sense which Mr. Baron Bramwell put upon it, because he has just said it was... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 686 pages
...would give him full protection. Judge Story, in the case of the Santissima Trinidad, says : " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that...adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit." * On this authority, it has been claimed that English citizens had a right to build and sell Alabamas.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 752 pages
...transitu. In the case of the " Independencia," Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens...armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 728 pages
...transitu. In the case of the " Independencia," Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens...armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Francis Joseph Coltman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 662 pages
...Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheaton's Amer. Rep. 283, 340, that the law of nations did not prohibit the sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale, told the jury that the question which he proposed to submit to them was whether the " Alexandra" was... | |
 | 1865 - 422 pages
...Reports, is the following — ' ' There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that prohibits our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreigu ports for sale. It is a commereial adventure which no nation is beund to prohibit, and which... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1865 - 584 pages
...in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from Bending armed vessels, as well as фшШопв of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which 110 nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of... | |
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