...Report, 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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' ' I take this passage to be a very correct representation of the present state of the law of England...

...condemned as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nation«. J!nt there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that...adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which ouly exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage...

...hi our [aim, or hi the laic of »utions, that forbid« our citizens from sand i ну armed vexwlx, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Wheaton, in his excellent History of the prof/revs of the law of nations, (French edition, Leipsic,...

...meets it on the high seas or within his enemy's waters. ' There is nothing,' says Mr. Justice Story, ' in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit' If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order. ... It would appear, therefore,...

...the well-known case " Santissima Trinidad and Santander," laid it down as indispntable that" there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the...

...meets it on the high seas or within his enemy's waters. ' There is nothing,' says Mr. Justice Story, ' in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit 1 .' If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order ; and it must be permissible,...

...there is nothing in the law of nations or municipal law that makes the running of a blockade illegal. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation ; and it is no municipal offence to carry on trade With a blockaded port.6 And thus, although a country...

...obligations of the subjects 1 " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that prohibits our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bouiul to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penally of confiscation,"...

...States on the subject of the equipment of an armed vessel called the »Independencia del Sud"; en verder »It is a commercial adventure , which no nation is...exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of contraband". BLUNTSCHLI bestrijdt deze meening. Hij is van oordeel dat een neutrale staat niet alleen...

...admitted, but pretty plainly condemned. contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu, by the belligerent...