 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 pagina’s
...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 694 pagina’s
...being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit ; and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation, Supposing, therefore,... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pagina’s
...specifically to the sale of armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1822 - 666 pagina’s
...being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit; and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore,... | |
 | 1915 - 632 pagina’s
...latter, ' nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' (' Santissima Trinidad,'... | |
 | 1864 - 998 pagina’s
...us " ' (Storey) ; and 'there is nothing in our own laws or in the law of nations that forbids their citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale ' (8ггpreme Court of the United States) — cannot, without a complete perversion of their meaning,... | |
 | 1881 - 886 pagina’s
...falle. So sagte der Justice Story im Fall der Sautissima Trinidad 1*22 : There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations , that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitious of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commereial adventure which uo nation is bound to... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1854 - 930 pagina’s
...for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore,... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - 1855 - 544 pagina’s
...for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pagina’s
...for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (Secretary Webster's... | |
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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. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only... 
