Commentaries on the Law of NationsH. Sweet, 1875 - 520 páginas |
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Página xiii
... maritime supremacy was incontest- able , and , to recall Canning's noble figure , she was re- posing on the shadow of her power . The convulsions , and the still greater risks , of 1830 and 1831 , had failed to produce any general ...
... maritime supremacy was incontest- able , and , to recall Canning's noble figure , she was re- posing on the shadow of her power . The convulsions , and the still greater risks , of 1830 and 1831 , had failed to produce any general ...
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... Law than was formerly the case . Before this period Mr. Reddie had published , at Edin- burgh in 1841 , his Historical View of the Law of Maritime Commerce ; followed in 1844 by the same author's Re- xiv PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION .
... Law than was formerly the case . Before this period Mr. Reddie had published , at Edin- burgh in 1841 , his Historical View of the Law of Maritime Commerce ; followed in 1844 by the same author's Re- xiv PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION .
Página xv
... Maritime International Law . Both these works are valuable and learned disqui- sitions , especially in giving as full an insight as can now be obtained into the history of the earlier maritime codes , such as the Rhodian Laws , the ...
... Maritime International Law . Both these works are valuable and learned disqui- sitions , especially in giving as full an insight as can now be obtained into the history of the earlier maritime codes , such as the Rhodian Laws , the ...
Página xvi
... maritime questions which arose for dis- cussion during that momentous struggle . The work of Dr. Wheaton , of great interest when published in two small volumes in 1838 , is now , and long will be , from these successive and highly ...
... maritime questions which arose for dis- cussion during that momentous struggle . The work of Dr. Wheaton , of great interest when published in two small volumes in 1838 , is now , and long will be , from these successive and highly ...
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... Maritime International Law is that known as the Declaration of Paris , dated 16 April , 1856. This derives its great weight partly from the magnitude of the interests which the Declaration proposes to regulate , and partly from the pre ...
... Maritime International Law is that known as the Declaration of Paris , dated 16 April , 1856. This derives its great weight partly from the magnitude of the interests which the Declaration proposes to regulate , and partly from the pre ...
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Página 75 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página xxiv - A neutral Government is bound — " First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Página 378 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband, so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals.
Página 377 - Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of military or naval stores, provisions, or any sort of victual which may be used as food by man, and if any goods so prohibited shall be exported from the United Kingdom or carried coastwise, or be water-borne to be so exported or carried, they shall be forfeited.
Página xxiii - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Página 510 - She constitutes a part of the military force of her nation; acts under the immediate and direct command of the sovereign; is employed by him in national objects. He has many and powerful motives for preventing those objects from being defeated by the interference of a foreign state.
Página 238 - If any person within Her Majesty's dominions, etc., (1) Builds or agrees to build, or causes to be built, any ship with intent or knowledge or having reasonable cause to believe that the same shall or will be employed in the military or naval service of any foreign State at war with any friendly State ; or " (2) Issues or delivers any commission for any ship with intent or knowledge, etc.
Página 240 - ... jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace ; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use.
Página 441 - ... ships inconsistent with amity or neutrality; and if they consent to accept this pledge, no third party has a right to quarrel with it any more than with any other pledge which they may agree mutually to accept. But surely no sovereign can legally compel the acceptance of such a security by mere force. The only security known to the law of nations upon this subject, independent of all special covenant, is the right of personal visitation and search to be exercised by those who have the interest...
Página xxxv - The inhabitants of a territory which has not been occupied, who, on the approach of the enemy, spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading troops without having had time to organize themselves in accordance with Article 1, shall be regarded as belligerents if they carry arms openly and if they respect the laws and customs of war.