Commentaries on American Law, Volumen1Little, Brown,, 1873 |
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... object of the Amphictyonic council was to institute a law of nations among the Greeks , and settle contests between Grecian states by a pacific adjustment.1 It was also a law of nations among them , and one which was very religiously ...
... object of the Amphictyonic council was to institute a law of nations among the Greeks , and settle contests between Grecian states by a pacific adjustment.1 It was also a law of nations among them , and one which was very religiously ...
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... objects of pun- ishment . The practice of plundering shipwrecks has been traced to the Rhodians , and from them it passed to the Romans ; and the efforts to restrain it were very feeble and gradual , and mixed with much positive ...
... objects of pun- ishment . The practice of plundering shipwrecks has been traced to the Rhodians , and from them it passed to the Romans ; and the efforts to restrain it were very feeble and gradual , and mixed with much positive ...
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... object of Grotius was to correct these false theories and pernicious maxims , by showing a community of sentiment among the wise and learned of all nations and ages , in favor of the natural law of morality . He likewise undertook to ...
... object of Grotius was to correct these false theories and pernicious maxims , by showing a community of sentiment among the wise and learned of all nations and ages , in favor of the natural law of morality . He likewise undertook to ...
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... object , therefore , in some succeeding lectures will be , to dis- cuss all the leading points arising upon the rights and duties of nations , in the several relations of peace , of war , and of neu- trality . ( a ) November , 1824 ...
... object , therefore , in some succeeding lectures will be , to dis- cuss all the leading points arising upon the rights and duties of nations , in the several relations of peace , of war , and of neu- trality . ( a ) November , 1824 ...
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... object was to protect the peace of Europe " against those disastrous attempts which would spread the horror of universal anarchy over the civilized world ” — “ against a fanaticism for innovation , which would soon have rendered the ...
... object was to protect the peace of Europe " against those disastrous attempts which would spread the horror of universal anarchy over the civilized world ” — “ against a fanaticism for innovation , which would soon have rendered the ...
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Página 306 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Página 117 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 467 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; b*ut does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Página 509 - To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Página 499 - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Página 479 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Página 322 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it, and to claimants the rights and remedies under the workmen's compensation law of any State.60 Fourth.
Página 367 - Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State, within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 499 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Página 364 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.