 Resolved: That a ship or a vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, is, according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State to which her flag belongs ; as much so as if constituting a part of its...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 498by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901Full view - About this book
 | John Caldwell Calhoun, Clyde Norman Wilson - 1959 - 914 pages
...embraced in the first and second of these resolutions. The former affirms the acknowledged principle that a ship or vessel on the high seas in time of peace, and engaged in a lawful voyage, is by the law of nations under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1999 - 476 pages
...Rob. 272. In the case of McCayo v. New Orleans Ins. Co. 10 Kobinson, JR. 202, it was declared that a vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state to which her flag belongs, and that if forced by... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1959 - 610 pages
...standing by me, as he says, for he never uttered a word in their support: "Resolved, That a ship or a vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged...much so as if constituting a part of its own domain. "Resolved, That if such ship or vessel should be forced by stress of weather, or other unavoidable... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 pages
...followed, the Africans should never have been seized. The resolutions read as follows: 1. Resolved — That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of...under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state to which hir flag belongs as much as if constituting a part of its own domain. 2. Resolved — That if such... | |
 | 1840 - 1174 pages
...Enterprise under those circumstances. MARCH 4, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be printed. Resolved, That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of...much so, as if constituting a part of its own domain. Resolved, That if such ship or vessel should be forced by stress of weather, or other unavoidable cause,... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1858 - 1438 pages
...States, in the session of 1840, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : " Resolved, — That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of...according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisprudence of the State to which her flag belongs, as much so as if constituting a part of its own... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - 1898 - 1160 pages
...mouth, transmitting the correspondence.' lu 1840 the Senate adopted a resolution declaring that, where a vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, was forced by stress of weather or other unavoidable circumstance into the port of a friendly power,... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...mbraced in the first and second of these resoluions. The former affirms the acknowledged principle that a ship or vessel, on the high seas, in time of peace, arid engaged in a lawful voyage, is, by he laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the... | |
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