Kent's Commentary on International Law: Revised with Notes and Cases Brought Down to the Present TimeDeighton, Bell, and Company, 1866 - 484 páginas |
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... events , there are three whose learning and labour , as judges and writers , have shed glory over the legal literature of the United States , and have earned the singular distinction of being recognized as authorities on International ...
... events , there are three whose learning and labour , as judges and writers , have shed glory over the legal literature of the United States , and have earned the singular distinction of being recognized as authorities on International ...
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... events , that of keeping my subject down to comparatively moderate proportions ; and I venture also to hope that I have noticed the principal topics of public International Law . In order to keep within that range , I have adhered , as ...
... events , that of keeping my subject down to comparatively moderate proportions ; and I venture also to hope that I have noticed the principal topics of public International Law . In order to keep within that range , I have adhered , as ...
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... events may show us how little the wars of the ancients are like those of our own days ! " Again , at a much later period , when the Emperor Augustus , towards the end of his reign , was consolidating his power and carrying the Roman ...
... events may show us how little the wars of the ancients are like those of our own days ! " Again , at a much later period , when the Emperor Augustus , towards the end of his reign , was consolidating his power and carrying the Roman ...
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... events of nearly half a century have put an inter- pretation on these words , and shew us how far Europe has had cause to rejoice over this sacred pledge of its future tranquillity - how far the deliberations of the great powers have ...
... events of nearly half a century have put an inter- pretation on these words , and shew us how far Europe has had cause to rejoice over this sacred pledge of its future tranquillity - how far the deliberations of the great powers have ...
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... events that led to the armed assistance of Great Britain to Portugal in the year 1826. Affairso The cause for the demand of aid was the hostile aggression 1822 . of Spain , in whose territory large military expeditions were being formed ...
... events that led to the armed assistance of Great Britain to Portugal in the year 1826. Affairso The cause for the demand of aid was the hostile aggression 1822 . of Spain , in whose territory large military expeditions were being formed ...
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Página 363 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Página 299 - ... vessel, with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, together with all materials, arms, ammunition, and stores, which may have been procured for the building and equipment thereof, shall be forfeited, one-half to the use of the informer and the other half to the use of the United States.
Página 392 - That the penalty for the violent contravention of this right is the confiscation of the property so withheld from visitation and search. For the proof of this I need only refer to Vattel, one of the most correct and certainly not the least indulgent of modern professors of public law.
Página 166 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Página 299 - States, fits out and arms, or attempts to fit out and arm, or procures to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly is concerned in the furnishing, fitting out, or arming, of any vessel, with intent that such vessel shall be employed in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people...
Página 114 - The maritime territory of every State extends to the ports, harbours, bays, mouths of rivers, and adjacent parts of the sea inclosed by headlands belonging to -the same State. The general usage of nations superadds to this extent of territorial jurisdiction a distance of a marine league, or as far as a cannon-shot will reach from the shore along all the coasts of the State.
Página 456 - ... therein, and for regulating the fees to be taken by the officers of the courts, and the costs, charges, and expenses to be allowed to the practitioners therein.
Página 193 - Wars, they shall be attached without harm of body or goods, until it be known unto us , or our Chief Justice, how our Merchants be intreated there in the land making War against us; and if our Merchants be well intreated there, theirs shall be likewise with us.
Página 425 - April, 1790,(i) provides that "If any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would by the laws of the United States be punishable with death...
Página 464 - In any such action the defendant may plead generally that the act or thing complained of was done or omitted by him when...