Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the Judgments of Sir William Scott : Trinity Term 1811-[1822], Part 105, Volume 1A. Strahan, 1815 - Admiralty |
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... services antecedently performed by the Leda are of a nature to give her an interest in the capture . I am of opinion that they are not ; that the fervices previously performed by her , however meritorious they may have been , will not ...
... services antecedently performed by the Leda are of a nature to give her an interest in the capture . I am of opinion that they are not ; that the fervices previously performed by her , however meritorious they may have been , will not ...
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... services fubfequent- ly performed , they must be confidered precisely in the fame light ; I think I may lay it down as a certain and fixed rule , that no fervices antecedent or subse- quent , unless the veffel is employed in the ...
... services fubfequent- ly performed , they must be confidered precisely in the fame light ; I think I may lay it down as a certain and fixed rule , that no fervices antecedent or subse- quent , unless the veffel is employed in the ...
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... service before the engagement commenced ; and on the evening of the 22d , being the day after the battle , fhe again joined the British fleet , then under the command of Admiral Collingwood . On the morning of the 24th fhe captured and ...
... service before the engagement commenced ; and on the evening of the 22d , being the day after the battle , fhe again joined the British fleet , then under the command of Admiral Collingwood . On the morning of the 24th fhe captured and ...
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... service . I am of opinion , that it would be going beyond what the Court has hitherto done , to admit this claim . The Court rejected the claim of the Britomart , but directed the expences to be paid . July 31st , 1811 . Navigation laws ...
... service . I am of opinion , that it would be going beyond what the Court has hitherto done , to admit this claim . The Court rejected the claim of the Britomart , but directed the expences to be paid . July 31st , 1811 . Navigation laws ...
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... services most injurious to the interests of this country . 1811 , The master states also , that he had dispatches on board from the Prefident of the United States to the American minifter at Paris ; but the dispatches them- selves are ...
... services most injurious to the interests of this country . 1811 , The master states also , that he had dispatches on board from the Prefident of the United States to the American minifter at Paris ; but the dispatches them- selves are ...
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Page 138 - Plantations ; for explaining an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of King Charles the second, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade...
Page 255 - Council, to order and it is hereby ordered, that all the ports and places of France and her allies, or of any other country at war with his Majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with his Majesty, the British flag is excluded...
Page 157 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English...
Page 84 - It has been established by recent decisions of the supreme court, that the Court of Prize, though properly a court purely of the law of nations, has a right to notice the municipal law of this country in the case of a British vessel which, in the course of a prize proceeding, appears to have been trading in violation of that law, and to reject a claim for her on that account. That principle has been incorporated into the prize law of this country within the last twenty years, and seems now fully...
Page 157 - America, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England...
Page 255 - And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Judges of the Courts of Vice- Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein, as to them may respectively appertain.
Page 255 - ... that all the ports and places of France and her allies, or of any other country at war with His Majesty, and all other ports or places in Europe, from which, although not at war with His Majesty, the British flag is excluded, and all ports or places in the colonies belonging to His Majesty's enemies...
Page 255 - BY His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Name and on the Behalf of HIS MAJESTY. A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE PR WHEREAS...
Page 121 - ... neat cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, and live stock of any sort ; bread, biscuit, flour, peas, beans, potatoes, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and grain of any sort, such commodities, respectively, being the growth or production of any of the territories of the said United States of An.
Page 99 - Âmedie, is the reverse of the real principle there laid down by the Superior Court, which was, that where the municipal laws of the country to which the parties belong have prohibited the trade, the tribunals of this country will hold it to be illegal, upon the general...