Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Trinity Term, 1811[-1822].

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Page 138 - Plantations ; for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the second, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade...
Page 157 - America, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England...
Page 84 - America, but by our own laws it was still allowed. It appeared to us, therefore, difficult to consider the prohibitory law of America in any other light than as one of those municipal regulations of a foreign state of which this Court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place, the question stands on different grounds, and is open to the application of very different principles.
Page 72 - ... of all such commodities of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, as shall be imported into any of them, from any other place whatsoever, by land or water ; and if by water, of the ship or vessel, also, in which they were imported', with all her guns, tackle, furniture, ammunition, and apparel...
Page 120 - Cromwell, restricting the import and export trade of the Colonies to English, or Colony-built ships. The list of articles named in it, and which was extended from time to time, embraced what were known as enumerated articles. Two years after, in 1663, it was enacted that, " No commodity of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into the British plantations, but such as are laden and put on board in England, Wales, or Berwick-uponTweed, and in English-built shipping, whereof...

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