 | Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser, D. P. Visser - 1996 - 892 sivua
...adopt his quotation, in Luke vs. Lyde [(1759) 2 Burr 882 at 887, 97 ER 614 at 617], 'the maritime law is not the law of a particular country, but the general law of nations . . .'. And it is to be regretted that the 38 117. ™ (1859)3Searle231. 40 (1861) 3 Searle 242, also reported... | |
 | Lawrence M. Friedman - 2005 - 640 sivua
...English law, but part of an international body of rules. "The marine law of the United States," wrote Chancellor Kent, "is the same as the marine law of...law of a particular country, but the general law of nations."1 These words have to be taken with a grain of salt. But they did have a kernel of truth;... | |
 | 1827
...so far as to include within it the whole law of maritime contracts. " The maritime law," says he, " is not the law of a particular country; but the GENERAL LAW oF NATIoNS." Then he quotes the famous passage of Cicero in the third book, De Republicd, Nan erit lex alia Romx,... | |
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Romae, alia Athenis ; alia nunc, alia posthac ; sed, et apud omnes gentes et omni tempore, una eademque lex obtinebit. 
