 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 sivua
...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 armed vessels,...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... | |
 | 1887 - 606 sivua
...or within his enemy's waters. " There is nothing," says Mr. Justice Story, " in the law of " nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels..." adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit." If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order ; and it must be permissible,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 sivua
...traffick 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,...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... | |
 | 1864 - 814 sivua
...armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports, p. 348.) Ships of war... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 666 sivua
...traffick 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,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ay res... | |
 | 1915 - 632 sivua
...latter, ' 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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' (' Santissima Trinidad,' 7 Wheaton, p. 283.) Nearly a century later Mr Secretary Bryan re-affirmed... | |
 | James Kent - 1828 - 432 sivua
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu, by the belligerent... | |
 | 1864 - 998 sivua
...us " ' (Storey) ; and 'there is nothing in our own laws or in the law of nations that forbids their citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale ' (8ггpreme Court of the United States) — cannot, without a complete perversion of their meaning,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1854 - 930 sivua
...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,...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 - 1855 - 544 sivua
...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,...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... | |
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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... 
