 | Association of American Law Schools - 1907
...drawn up in the 15th century for the use of the Consuls of the sea at Barcelona, 1 " The maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations." Ld. Mansfield, Luke v. Lyde (1759) 2 Burr. 887. "The law of merchants is jus gentium and the judges... | |
 | Norman Bentwich - 1907 - 151 sivua
...broad principles became fixed, so that even in war time it was partially true that " Maritime law was not the law of a particular country but the general law of nations." 1 On land progress was slower because there was less opportunity for the influence of common consent,... | |
 | Norman Bentwich - 1907 - 151 sivua
...broad principles became fixed, so that even in war time it was partially true that " Maritime law was not the law of a particular country but the general law of nations."1 On land progress was slower because there was less opportunity for the influence of common... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - 1910
...customs were a part of the customs of the English people (34). Lord Mansfield says: "The maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations. Non erit alia Romae, alia Athenis, alia nunc, alia posthac, sed et apud omnes gentes et omni tempera... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth, Edward Potton - 1922
...its name from some one port Each was 1 Bit. iv PL I. c. 3 ; Bk. iv Pt. II. c. 4. 1 " The maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations," per Lord Mansfield, Luke v. Lyde (1759) a Burr. 887 ; " The law of merchants is jus gentium and the... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1925 - 1382 sivua
...rules found their way into the English system of admiralty. "The maritime law," said Lord Mansfield, "is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations," Luke v. Lyde (1759), 2 Burr. 887. Justice Story, the foremost American admiralty judge, says that "the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885
...as Chief Jveticc of the King's Bench, nearly a century earlier, when he said that the maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations. Luke v. Lyde, 2 Burr., 882. Judge Story referred to that case, in support of the decision of the court,... | |
 | Morton J. HORWITZ - 1977 - 356 sivua
...broadly on an independent commercial law, which, only a decade before, James Wilson had declared was "not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations."46 In the interim, the idea of a general commercial law had begun to be resisted, not only... | |
 | 1986 - 11 sivua
...Plucknett 660-664 ; Sack 349-356. 125. See Wieacker 11-13. As Lord Mansfield said later, "maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations". Luke v. Lyde, 97 Eng. Rep. 614, 617 (KB 1759). Similarly one reads in Blackstone that "the affairs... | |
 | Michael J. Glennon - 1991 - 353 sivua
...Works 375 (J. Wilson ed. 1804) (statement of Justice Wilson that the law applied in maritime cases is "not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations"). most effectual restraint is an upright judiciary."203 Little wonder that Marshall should call international... | |
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