 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Francis Joseph Coltman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 662 pages
...Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheaton's Amer. Rep. 283, 340, that the law of nations did not prohibit the sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale, told the jury that the question which he proposed to submit to them was whether the " Alexandra" was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 728 pages
...Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1865 - 752 pages
...Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1865 - 584 pages
...in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from Bending armed vessels, as well as фшШопв of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which 110 nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Mexico - 1866 - 636 pages
...opinion of the court, said : " 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." (7 Wheaton, 340.) Without entering into an extended exposition of the law on this subject, I am of... | |
 | James Kent - International law - 1866 - 530 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... | |
 | Sidney Webster - Neutrality - 1866 - 98 pages
...prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our law, 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." We have seen that the facts proved in this case are that the capturing vessel was first sold to private... | |
 | George Bemis - Neutrality - 1866 - 304 pages
...Santissima Trinidad " case, that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, &c."? With such recorded doctrines and practice as this, no wonder that Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams had... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1868 - 602 pages
...VVheaton's Kep. 340, is the following : " There is nothing in our laws or in the law ofnatlont, that forbids 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... | |
 | William De Burgh (B.A.) - Maritime law - 1868 - 288 pages
...Story thus expresses himself:—"There is nothing in our laws or in the laws of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as...which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only 1 Twiss, Law of Nations, Time of War, preface, p. xvii. exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty... | |
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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... 
