Claim of Augustus C. FretzJ.L. Pearson, printer, 1866 - 17 pages |
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according to justice AMERICA AND U. S. American citizen American Commissioner April 15 argument award belligerents Biddle char Charles Sumner citizen or subject City of Mexico CLAIM OF AUGUSTUS claimant Cochin compensation convention courts of equity deposition DWELLING therein entitled evidence existing treaties foundation of international Fretz Gardner's Institutes giance hostile character house of trade icil injured Isthmus of Panama izens justice and equity Laurent Laws of War letters of administration Messrs mission national character native neutral Ocean House ocean to ocean OFFICE JOINT COMMISSION original domicil Pacifico Panama riot party peace Pennsylvania Phillimore present principles Private International Law proof purpose of capture regularly domiciled Republic of Granada residence riot at Panama Sir William Scott submitted suffered through death tion transient or DWELLING transit route treaty in question U. S. AMERICA U. S. COLOMBIA umpire United Vigilantia Westlake's Private International Wheaton Wheaton's
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Page 3 - They shall be bound to receive and peruse all written documents or statements which may be presented to them by or on behalf of their respective Governments, in support of or in answer to any claim...
Page 7 - In cases where they cannot agree, the subjects of difference shall be referred to the Umpire, before whom each of the Commissioners may be heard, and whose decision shall be final. AKTICI.K...
Page 11 - Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this citizen; and the sovereign of the latter should avenge his wrongs, punish the aggressor, and, if possible, oblige him to make full reparation; since otherwise the citizen would not obtain the great end of the civil association, which is, safety.
Page 6 - National character may be acquired in consideration of the character traffic in which the party is concerned. If a person connects himself with a house of trade in the enemy's country, in time of war, or continues, during a war, a connection formed in a time of peace, he cannot protect himself by having his domicil in a neutral country.
Page 9 - Both contracting parties promise and engage formally to give their special protection to the persons and property of the citizens of each other, of all occupations, who may be in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of one or the other, transient or dwelling therein...
Page 12 - the principle which governed such cases was that the citizens of foreign states who resided within the arena of war had no right to demand compensation from either of the belligerents.
Page 5 - However, where a neutral is engaged in peace, in a house of trade in the enemy's country, his property, so engaged in the house is not, at the commencement of war, confiscated; but if he continues in the house after the knowledge of the war, it is liable, as above stated, to confiscation. It is a settled principle that traffic alone, independent of residence, will, in some cases, confer a hostile character on the individual...
Page 7 - Athens, which was in 1836 arbitrarily appropriated by the Greek Government, and, subsequently in the year 1840, inclosed in the garden of the Royal Palace at Athens. "2. M. Pacifico's claim. — M. Pacifico is a native of Gibraltar, and therefore a British subject. His claim is for the value of property and effects belonging to him which were destroyed in April, 1847, when a riotous mob, aided by Greek soldiers and gendarmes, broke into and plundered his house at Athens in open day.
Page 4 - ... has never been supposed that the ownership of land was by itself sufficient to constitute domicile; indeed, the contrary has often been held. Even in the prize courts, who hold the most stringent doctrines on the subject of domicile, landed estate alone has never been decided to constitute domicile or fix the national character of the possessor who is not personally resident upon it. (The Twee Gebrceders, 4 Robinson ad.
Page 7 - All claims on the part of corporations, companies, or individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the Government of Venezuela, which may have been presented to their Government or to its legation...