 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
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...neutrality. " There is nothing" (says the high authority of Mr. Justice Story), " in our laws, or in the laws of " nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to " foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial advcn" ture wliich no nation is bound to prohibit, and " which only exposes the persons engaged in... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 522 pages
...neutrality. " There is nothing," jays the high authority of Mr. Justice Story, " in >ur laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It sa commercial adventure which no nation is >ound to prohibit, and which only exposes the 'enalty of... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - Commercial law - 1871 - 620 pages
...denominated " contraband of war/' is a valid contract. It is merely a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Such goods are liable to seizure in transitu by the belligerent cruisers, and so far it is a case of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1871 - 1086 pages
...he United States — held to apply to that vessel, in which that learned Judge said — " There ¡3 nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed тевясЬ as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture which... | |
 | Henry Ottley - 1872 - 212 pages
...States, in the case of the ' Santisima Trinidad/ spoke as follows : — " There is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." In England there is no trace of a contrary doctrine having ever been held. We read in Fortescue's Reports... | |
 | Henry Ottley - Alabama claims - 1872 - 210 pages
...States, in the case of the ' Santisima Trinidad/ spoke as follows : — " There is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." In England there is no trace of a centrary doctrine having ever been held. We read in Fortescue's Reports... | |
 | 1872 - 628 pages
...Santissima Trinidad, (7 Wheaton, p. 283,) where he said, u There is nothing in our laws, or in the laic of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Wheaton, in his excellent History of the progress of the law of nations, (French edition, Leipsic,... | |
 | 1872 - 356 pages
...condemned as good prize 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...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty ol confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been... | |
 | 1872 - 590 pages
...condemned as good prize 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...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 1116 pages
...this branch of the law : " There is nothing," he said, "in our laws, or in the law of nations, which forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as...engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (The Santissima Trinidad. 7 Wheaton's Rep., p. 283.) And, generally, it may be stated that the American... | |
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