 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 to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it...  The Quarterly Review - Page 217edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 pages
...condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffick 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 munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - 1855 - 544 pages
...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, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 660 pages
...with neutrality. " There is nothing" (their Supreme Court says, by the mouth of Mr. Justice Story,) " 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... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 668 pages
...with neutrality. " There is nothing" (their Supreme Court says, by the mouth of Mr. Justice Story,) " 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... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pages
...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, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 788 pages
...own laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is...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"... | |
 | Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 240 pages
...Justice Story,—a more authentic and conclusive authority it would be impossible to adduce:— 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... | |
 | Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 242 pages
...condemned as good prize 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, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1863 - 328 pages
...capture them on the way as contraband, and it would be no offence in sending out arms, " 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." Now, why is that ? Why... | |
 | Charles Greely Loring - 1863 - 128 pages
...contraband indeed, but in no shape violating our laws, or our national neutrality; " and that there was 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 being a commercial adventure... | |
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