To use the words of a celebrated authority, "when a nation takes possession of a distant country, and settles a Colony there, that country, though separated from the principal establishment or mother country, naturally becomes a part of the State, equally... The New-York Legal Observer - Page 288edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| Trials - 1816 - 724 pages
...his authority. In Q. 10, sec. BI Your lordship will find him expressing himself in these words, '< When a nation takes possession of a distant country...of a nation ought also to extend to its colonies." If therefore the political laws are co-extensive with the territory of the state, however disjoined... | |
| T. B. Howell, Esq. - 1816 - 804 pages
...his authority. In Q. 10, sec. B. 1. Your lordship will find him expressing himself in these words, " When a nation takes possession of a distant country...of a nation ought also to extend to its colonies." If therefore the political laws are co-extensive with the territory of the state, however disjoined... | |
| Trials - 1816 - 742 pages
...ft. 1O, sec. B. 1. 'Your lordship will find him expressing himself in these words, " When a oatiou takes possession of a distant country and settles...of a nation ought also to extend to its colonies." If therefore the political laws are co-extensive with the territory of the slate, however disjoined... | |
| Trials - 1816 - 722 pages
...his authority. In Q. 10, sec. B. 1. 'Your lordship will find him expressing himself in these words, " When a nation takes possession of a distant country...separated from the principal establishment or mother conutry, naturally becomes a part of the state, equally with its ancient possessions. Whenever therefore... | |
| William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...relative to capital punishments not being awardable by a ct- mar., except in cases so specified.) (5) " When a nation takes possession of a distant country,...Whenever, therefore, the political laws, or treaties, innkes no distinction between them, every tiling said of the territory of a nation, must also extend... | |
| William Beach Lawrence - Constitutional history - 1832 - 72 pages
...situated in Europe and America. It is a principle, abundantly recognised by writers on public law, that " when a nation takes possession of a distant country...the state, equally with its ancient possessions."* In the treaties, by which those districts of our country, not settled in the first instance from England... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...establishing a title in New-Brunswick than in the state of Maine. To use the words of a celebrated authority, "when a nation takes possession of a distant country,...becomes a part of the state, equally with its ancient pegsessions." From the principle here established, that the political condition of the people or the... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...a title in New-Brunswick than in the state of Maine. To use the words of a celebrated authority, " when a nation takes possession of a distant country,...the state, equally with its ancient possessions." From the principle here established, that the political condition of the people or the mother country,... | |
| 1841 - 572 pages
...States, the property of a common sovereign, it was shown by a reference to the writers on public law that when a nation takes possession of a distant country and settles a colony there, that country naturally becomes a part of the state, equally within its ancient possessions. From this principle,... | |
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