 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...  Commentaries Upon International Law - Page 326de Sir Robert Phillimore - 1855Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 pages
...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing 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 venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
 | 1887 - 606 pages
...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..." adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit." If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order ; and it must be permissible,... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...applied it specifically to the sale of armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports, p. 348.) Ships of war... | |
 | 1915 - 632 pages
...('Works,' [ed. 1854] iii, 558), it was ruled by Mr Justice Story in 1822. ' There IB,' 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... | |
 | James Kent - 1828 - 432 pages
...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a 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... | |
 | 1864 - 998 pages
...us " ' (Storey) ; and 'there is nothing in our own laws or in the law of nations that forbids their citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale ' (8ггpreme Court of the United States) — cannot, without a complete perversion of their meaning,... | |
 | 1881 - 886 pages
...Kategorie blosser Contreband« falle. So sagte der Justice Story im Fall der Sautissima Trinidad 1*22 : There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations...our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitious of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commereial adventure which uo nation is bound to... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 728 pages
...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiseation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pages
...justly condemned as 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,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (Secretary Webster's Instructions to Thompson, our Minister to Mexicv. 7 Wheat. 340. 1 Renfs Com. 141,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1869 - 878 pages
...Ayres on a commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or our national neutrality, and 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. Gary their... | |
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