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" 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 Theory of Our National Existence: As Shown by the Action of the ... - Page 184
by John Codman Hurd - 1881 - 550 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 111

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 166

1887 - 606 pages
...enemy's waters. " There is nothing," says Mr. Justice Story, " in the law of " nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well "..." 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,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 7

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 694 pages
...prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation, Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 95

England - 1864 - 814 pages
...vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as...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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 20

United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1822 - 666 pages
...prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ay res...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 224

English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' (' Santissima Trinidad,' 7 Wheaton, p. 283.) Nearly a century later Mr Secretary Bryan re-affirmed...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 3

James Kent - 1826-1830 - 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...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 69

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,...
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Commenentaries Upon International Law, Volume 1

Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres...
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Commentaries Upon International Law, Volume 2

Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres...
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