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
| John Lambert Cadwalader, United States. Department of State - 1877 - 308 pages
...our courts for the purpose of inquiry and restitution, if a case therefor is made. Ib. 62. 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. 16., [340.] 63. An augmentation... | |
| James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 pages
...our 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.'* The compilers of the American Case affect to treat this most authoritative judgment as if it were a... | |
| James Kent - 1878 - 588 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... | |
| James Kent - 1878 - 568 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... | |
| Henry Wager Halleck - 1878 - 644 pages
...commercial adventure, in violating our laws or our national neutrality, and that there is ll *"»g in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens sending armed vessels to foreign ports for sale. If the " Meteor " Soing out to Panama on a purely... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1879 - 588 pages
...Story should h» v « said (case of the Santissima Trinidad, 1 Wheaton, 340), " There is nothing '" our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending arm*" vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which... | |
| William Edward Hall - 1880 - 776 pages
...Justice Story, ' 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...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit 1 .' If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order ; and it must be permissible,... | |
| Henry Wheaton - 1880 - 826 pages
...international law when done bandfolf. " There is nothing in our laws," said Mr. Justice Story, in 1S22, "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... | |
| John Codman Hurd - 1881 - 654 pages
...laws, or in tlie law of nations, that prohibits 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," Story, J., in The Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheat. 340, — the " confiscation," that is to say, of the... | |
| John W. Hogg, United States, United States. Navy Department - 1883 - 406 pages
...our lawi. or in the law oi nations, that fol hid our citizens from sending armed vessels» well as munitions of 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 iu it to the... | |
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