Cases on International Law: Principally Selected from Decisions of English and American CourtsJames Brown Scott |
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... peace to do one another all the good they can , and in time of war as little harm as possible , without prejudicing their real interests , " - Baron de Montesquieu , The Spirit of Laws , 1748 . " I am much obliged by the kind present ...
... peace to do one another all the good they can , and in time of war as little harm as possible , without prejudicing their real interests , " - Baron de Montesquieu , The Spirit of Laws , 1748 . " I am much obliged by the kind present ...
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... Peace and their Teaching . London , 1917 . Phillipson , Coleman : The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome . 2 vols . London , 1911 . : International Law and the Great War , with Introduction by Sir John Macdonell ...
... Peace and their Teaching . London , 1917 . Phillipson , Coleman : The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome . 2 vols . London , 1911 . : International Law and the Great War , with Introduction by Sir John Macdonell ...
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... Peace . 474 2 . Good Offices and Mediation ... 474 3 . International Commissions of Inquiry . 475 4 . International Arbitration .... 476 PART II COMPULSIVE MEASURES OF REDRESS IN TIME OF PEACE CHAPTER I NONINTERCOURSE 1 . Nonhostile 2 ...
... Peace . 474 2 . Good Offices and Mediation ... 474 3 . International Commissions of Inquiry . 475 4 . International Arbitration .... 476 PART II COMPULSIVE MEASURES OF REDRESS IN TIME OF PEACE CHAPTER I NONINTERCOURSE 1 . Nonhostile 2 ...
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... peace . For the purpose of ascertaining this last point , commissions had been sent to Calcutta and Madras ; and the judge , finding that the trade had been as alleged , open to foreigners , pronounced for restitution , but without ...
... peace . For the purpose of ascertaining this last point , commissions had been sent to Calcutta and Madras ; and the judge , finding that the trade had been as alleged , open to foreigners , pronounced for restitution , but without ...
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... peace , even where the vessel belongs to a nation which has prohibited the trade , cannot exist . The courts of no country execute the penal laws of another ; and the course of the American government , on the subject of visitation and ...
... peace , even where the vessel belongs to a nation which has prohibited the trade , cannot exist . The courts of no country execute the penal laws of another ; and the course of the American government , on the subject of visitation and ...
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Page 432 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Page 151 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 142 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 142 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 719 - The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition and government of the Philippines.
Page 455 - It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 358 - That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States, respectively, wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by Congress.
Page 13 - For this purpose, where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by years of labor, research, and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with the subjects of which they treat.
Page 230 - And the United States hereby renounce forever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof to take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 301 - ... susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction. All exceptions, therefore, to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories, must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate...