...rule. "Respecting the power of government, no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has...

...rule. "Respecting the power of government, no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern tunes has...

...disreputable." In Brown v. The United States,2 Marshall, CJ, held : " That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded." Chancellor Kent thus sums up the American case law on the subject : " . . . However strong...

...rule. Respecting the power of government, no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has...

...States (8 Cranch, 110), the broad principle was assumed that war gave the sovereign full right to take the property of the enemy wherever found, and that...rule, which the wise and humane policy of modern times has brought into practice, may more or less affect the exercise of the right, but cannot impair the...

...Justice, John Marshall, who, in the course of his opinion, said that, while war gave to the sovereign "full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found," yet the "mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times" had "introduced...

...enemy at the declaration of war rests upon the broad principle that war gives to the sovereign or state full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, and that while modern policy is more humane and wise in respect to mitigation of this rigid rule than was that...

...in delivering the opinion of the court, said that it was conceded that "war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found," and added that "the mitigations of this rigid rule, winch the humane and wise policy of modern times has...

...United States (1814), 8 Cr. 110, 3 L. ed. 504, Marshall, CJ, says: "That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has...

...said : "Eespecting the power of government no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has...