 | Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...justly 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,...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 Robert Phillimore - International law - 1857 - 666 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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. "(«) The authority of Story is, and always will be, of the greatest weight ; and it is not without... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 728 pages
...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiseation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...justly 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,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (Secretary Webster's Instructions to Thompson, our Minister to Mexicv. 7 Wheat. 340. 1 Renfs Com. 141,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1869 - 878 pages
...Ayres on a commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or our national neutrality, and that there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations...that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels to foreign ports for sale. If the Messrs. Forbes, or any of the owners of the Meteor, or Mr. Gary their... | |
 | Travers Twiss - International law - 1863 - 582 pages
...justly condemnable 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,...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 - Great Britain - 1863 - 236 pages
...justly 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,...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... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - Forensic psychiatry - 1863 - 788 pages
...of the United States, in the Santissima Trinidad, 7, Wheat. 353, " in our own laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...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"... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...' demned 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,...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale.' We will not affirm that this is good law ; but, at any rate, it is law which cannot be impugned by... | |
 | Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 794 pages
...There is nothing in the laws of the United States, or in the laws of nations, that forbids neutrals from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes those engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. The Santissima Trinidad, 7 ib. 283. 45. The laws... | |
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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... 
