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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... "
Commentaries Upon International Law - Page 255
by Sir Robert Phillimore - 1857
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Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: General appendix ...

United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 682 pages
...adventure in no shape violating our laws or our national nentrality, and that there is nothing in onr 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. Cary,...
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Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Part 1

United States. Department of State - United States - 1869 - 878 pages
...uniii-d vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons imaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have V< cii fur commercial...
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Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: Recognition of rebel ...

United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1869 - 860 pages
...as pmid 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 citi/ens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of w:ir. i" foreign ports for sale. It is...
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The North American Review, Volume 111

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1870 - 510 pages
...Judge Story's words quoted, especially by British writers a few. years back, that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." * It is unnecessary to say that the risk of confiscation has never been so great, and probably never...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 56

Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 722 pages
...487. The Bermuda, 3 Wall. 515 ; and opinion of the Court, 'p. 551.) There is nothing in our laws, or the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. (Per Marshall, Ch. J., Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheat. 340.) III. A contract, valid and binding where...
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Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1870 - 870 pages
...of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or ill the law of nations, that forbids our citi/cns from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." i This is a case illustrating the law and practice of the United States while neutral in the war between...
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The Law of Commerce in Time of War: With Particular Reference to the ...

Edward James Castle - Belligerency - 1870 - 172 pages
...the Santissima Trinidad^ says, " There is nothing in our law, or the law of nations, that prohibits our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." So in the case of blockade, it has been held...
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Correspondence Concerning Claims Against Great Britain: General appendix ...

United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1870 - 748 pages
...them on the way as contraband, and it would be no offense in sending out arms. " But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale." Now, why is that ? Why, of course, because the construction of the foreign enlistment act is adopted...
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Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 730 pages
...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...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 in it to...
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The Annual Register

History - 1870 - 696 pages
...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes tho persons engaged in it to...
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