 | 1811 - 676 pages
...municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vcsseh'in a situation where no laws can operate but the law...of the country to which the vessels belong : and a self redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained lyid alone concerned,... | |
 | 1812 - 500 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation...of the country to which the vessels belong; and a self redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1812 - 34 pages
...nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...of the country to which the vessels belong : and a self redress is assumed, which if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | 1812 - 448 pages
...over " British subjects. British jurisdiction is " thus extended to neutral vessels in a si" lujtmn where no laws can operate but '• the law of nations...belong; and " a self-redress is assumed, which, if Bri • " tish subjects were wrongfully detained " and aloiie concerned, is that substitution " of... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1812 - 446 pages
...subjects. British jurisdiction is " thus extended to neutral vessels in a si" tuation where no laws csn operate but " the law of nations and the laws of the...belong; and " a self-redress is assumed, which, if Bri" tish subjects were wrongfully detained " and alone concerned, is that substitution " of force... | |
 | 1812 - 438 pages
...situation wnere no laws can operate but the Isw of nations and the laws o* the country to which the vesv-U Belong ; and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detnim-u ai« alone concerned, is tliat substitution of force, for a resort to tlie responsible sovereign,... | |
 | 1813 - 1082 pages
...British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where Го laws can operate but the law of nations, and the laws...which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alont concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1814 - 542 pages
...municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutnl veMcls in a situation where no laws can operate but the law...force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects, in such cases, be regarded... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1814 - 548 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation...of the country to which the vessels belong ; and a self redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | 1815 - 410 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects, in such cases be regarded,... | |
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... of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over... 
