 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - 1855 - 544 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 660 pages
...with neutrality. " There is nothing" (their Supreme Court says, by the mouth of Mr. Justice Story,) " in our laws, or in the Law of Nations, that forbids...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 668 pages
...with neutrality. " There is nothing" (their Supreme Court says, by the mouth of Mr. Justice Story,) " in our laws, or in the Law of Nations, that forbids...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pages
...justly condemned as good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 240 pages
...been justly condemned as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Sir Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 pages
...been justly condemnable as good Prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the Law of Nations. But there is nothing in our Laws, or in the Law of...well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no Nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 242 pages
...been justly condemned as good prize for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
 | 748 pages
...Independencia}, 7 Wheaton's Supreme Court Reports, 283. That learned Judge says (p. 340),—"There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, whicli only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation."... | |
 | Charles Greely Loring - 1863 - 128 pages
...contraband indeed, but in no shape violating our laws, or our national neutrality; " and that there was nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that...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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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 ports for " sale." Now, why is that ? Why of course because the construction of the Foreign... 
