The laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror; the absurd exception as to pagans mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the universality and antiquity of the maxim. For that distinction could not exist before the... Arbitration Series - Page 689by United States. Department of State - 1929Full view - About this book
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1814 - 730 pages
...case, shews the universality of the maxim. The exception could' not exist before the Christian irra, and in all probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the crusades. — In the present case the capitulation expressly provides and agrees, that they shall continue to... | |
| Trials - 1816 - 742 pages
...case, shews the universality of the maxim. The exception could not exist before the Christian tera, and in all probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the crusades. — In the present case the capitulation expressly provideu and agrees, that they shall continue to... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 640 pages
...a conquered country continue in force until they arc altered by the conqueror. The absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the crusades. 6. If the King (by which is meant the King without the concurrence of parliament) has a power to alter... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 624 pages
...a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror. The absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the crusades. 6. If the King (by which is meant the King without the concurrence of parliament) has a power to alter... | |
| Charles Clark - Constitutional law - 1834 - 768 pages
...continue in force until they I are altered by the conqueror;" andj he added, " the absurd exception as to Pagans mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the crusades." Within this limit the rule would now seem to be confined. But there is one distinction that deserves... | |
| 1837 - 682 pages
...are altered by the conqueror: the absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shews the universality and antiquity of the maxim. For that distinction could not exist before the Christian aera ; and in all probability arose from tlic mad enthusiasm of the Croisacles. In the present case... | |
| Thomas Chisholm Anstey - Catholics - 1842 - 218 pages
...maxim, that the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror. For that distinction could not exist before the Christian era, and in all probability arose from the enthusiasm of the crusades. These expressions of Lord Mansfield were referred to by Lord Brougham with... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 678 pages
...a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror; the absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...all probability arose from the mad enthusiasm of the Croisndes." the first and second of the three maxims, stated in the previous chapter, which enter into... | |
| John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 694 pages
...a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror; the absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...Christian era, and in all probability arose from the mud enthusiasm of the Croisades." Whether laws allowing torture have been abrogated by British dominion,... | |
| Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1861 - 960 pages
...says Lord Mansfield, "continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror; the absurd exception as to pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the...of the inhabitants with the government. The rule is more correctly and clearly stated by Chief Justice Marshall, as follows : " On the transfer of territory,... | |
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