...down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions...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...

...enemy's waters. " There is nothing," says Mr. Justice Story, " in the law of " nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well " as munitions..." 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,...

...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, as well as munitions...purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres to have been a bonajide sale, (and there is nothing in the evidence before us to contradict it,) there is no pretence...

...There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions...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...

...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, as well as munitions...been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ay res to have been a bonajide sale, (and there is nothing in the evidence before us to contradict...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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, as well as munitions...purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres to have been a bona fide sale, (and there is nothing in the evidence before us to contradict it,) there is no pretence...

...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, as well as munitions...purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres to have been a bona fide sale, (and there is nothing in the evidence before us to contradict it,) there is no pretence...