 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1843 - 576 pages
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which " the necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two Governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 414 pages
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the "necessity of that self-defense is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 660 pages
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the " necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 658 pages
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the " necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1866 - 804 pages
...infringement of territorial rights, the British Government must show "a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation ; " and it should further appear that the Canadian authorities, in acting under this exigence, "did... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 pages
...in which this extreme resorted to should be those only in which " the necessity of that defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Within such a description as this, such a state of things as that which arose in connection with the... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1874 - 44 pages
...self-defence do exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which, the necessity of that defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Let this rule be applied to the Spanish seizure of the Virginius, with all the exactness that is possible,... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1888 - 388 pages
...and destruction of the " Caroline," the British government must show " a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation," and that in accomplishing their end their agents " did nothing unreasonable or excessive." Ashburton... | |
 | Freeman Snow - 1893 - 636 pages
...infringement of territorial rights, the British government must show "a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation ; " and it should further appear that the Canadian authorities, in acting under this exigence, " did... | |
 | George Grafton Wilson, George Fox Tucker - 1901 - 534 pages
...sanctioned by international law. Such measures, however, must be from "a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation," and further " must be limited by that necessity and kept clearly within it."2 The wide discussion of... | |
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... instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation. 
