 | 1887 - 606 pages
...eminent a lawyer as Chancellor Kent, who, in the well-known case of Washburn,* laid it down that it was ' the law and usage ' of nations, resting on the plainest...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction.' That the Chancellor was enunciating a principle acted on from time to time by various European nations... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1825 - 612 pages
...Taunt. 34. and 1 Chitty on Criminal Law, 16 — 46, in support of the jurisdiction. THE CHANCELLOR. It is the law and usage of nations, resting on the...felony and other high crimes, and fleeing from the coiyitry in which the crime was committed, into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction. When a case of... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1829 - 956 pages
...5. Con. ART. 10. Con. 1 Const Rep. 241. ART. 11. Con. § 5 con. It is the law and usage of nations, to deliver up offenders, charged with felony and other high crimes, and who have fled from the country in which the crime was committed : 2. And for that purpose, the civil... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 pages
...Washburn, 4 John. CR, 108, maintained that independent of .any treaty stipulations, " it is the law 73 and usage of nations, resting on the plainest principles...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction." But this opinion has been followed in no other state. On the contrary it has been rejected in several.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1865 - 506 pages
...absence of treaty stipulations, by the law of nations : " It is the law and usage of nations, resting in the plainest principles of justice and public utility,...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction. " This doctrine is supported equally by reason and authority." He quotes the foreign text writers,... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1865 - 502 pages
...absence of treaty stipulations, by the law of nations : "It is the law and usage of nations, resting in the plainest principles of justice and public utility,...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction. "This doctrine is supported equally by reason and authority." He quotes the foreign text writers, and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1865 - 530 pages
...absence of treaty stipulations, by the law of nations : "It is the law and usage of nations, resting in the plainest principles of justice and public utility,...country in which the crime was committed into a foreign aud friendly jurisdiction. " This doctrine is supported equally by reason and authority." He quotes... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1865 - 502 pages
...of nations : "It is the law and usage of nations, resting in the plainest principles of jnstke-and public utility, to deliver up offenders charged with...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction. " This doctrine is supported equally by reason and authority." He quotes the foreign text writers,... | |
 | 1865 - 502 pages
...and usage of nations, resting in the plainest principles of justice and public utility, to deliver np offenders charged with felony and other high crimes,...the crime was committed into a foreign and friendly j urisdiction. " This doctrine is supported equally by reason and authority." He quotes the foreign... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1876 - 720 pages
...usage of nations, resting [578 on the plainest principles of justice and public utility, to deliver np offenders charged with felony and other high crimes,...committed into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction." But this opinion has been followed in no other state. On the contrary it has been rejected in several.... | |
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It is the law and usage of nations, resting on the plainest principles of justice and public utility, to deliver up offenders charged with felony and other high crimes, and fleeing from the country in which the crime was committed, into a foreign and... 
