| James Kent - 1858 - 728 páginas
...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 the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiseation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu,... | |
| Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 páginas
...prohibited 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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (Secretary Webster's Instructions to Thompson, our Minister to Mexicv. 7 Wheat. 340. 1 Renfs Com. 141,... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 878 páginas
...prohibited 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 of war, to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 240 páginas
...would be impossible to adduce:— There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. ('The Santissima Trindad,' 7 WheatonReports, 340.) The same doctrine is copiously expounded in a very... | |
| Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 788 páginas
...the Santissima Trinidad, 7, Wheat. 353, " in our own laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres"... | |
| Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 páginas
...prohibited 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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
| Sir Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 páginas
...punishable by the Law of Nations. But there is nothing in our Laws, or in the Law of Nations, which forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as...exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of Contraband. Supposing therefore the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos... | |
| Frederick Waymouth Gibbs - 1863 - 136 páginas
...But there is nothing in our laws " or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from send" ing armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Sup" posing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial " purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
| Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - 1863 - 794 páginas
...There is nothing in the laws of the United States, or in the laws of nations, that forbids neutrals from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes those engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. The Santissima Trinidad, 7 ib. 283. 45. The laws... | |
| Reverdy Johnson - 1863 - 764 páginas
...national neutrality ; " and that there was nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale ; it being a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
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