Cases on International Law: Principally Selected from Decisions of English and American CourtsJames Brown Scott |
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... question , whether the slave trade is prohibited by the law of nations has been seriously propounded , and both the affirmative and negative of the proposition have been main- tained with equal earnestness . That it is contrary to the ...
... question , whether the slave trade is prohibited by the law of nations has been seriously propounded , and both the affirmative and negative of the proposition have been main- tained with equal earnestness . That it is contrary to the ...
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... question before the court was , are fishing smacks , in the absence of municipal law or treaty , protected from capture by the law of nations , and is such law of nations part of the municipal law of the United States ? " * Mr. Justice ...
... question before the court was , are fishing smacks , in the absence of municipal law or treaty , protected from capture by the law of nations , and is such law of nations part of the municipal law of the United States ? " * Mr. Justice ...
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... question whether , in conse- quence of this protectorate right , the Ionian states become , ipso facto , the enemies of all or any power or powers with which Great Britain may happen to be at war ; and it is also another and different ...
... question whether , in conse- quence of this protectorate right , the Ionian states become , ipso facto , the enemies of all or any power or powers with which Great Britain may happen to be at war ; and it is also another and different ...
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... question for our determination arises upon the special pleas , and relates to the sufficiency of the facts therein set forth as a defence ; that is , to the effect of the sequestration of the debt by the Confederate government as a bar ...
... question for our determination arises upon the special pleas , and relates to the sufficiency of the facts therein set forth as a defence ; that is , to the effect of the sequestration of the debt by the Confederate government as a bar ...
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... question depended on the questions ( 1 ) whether 22 In the slightly earlier case of Thompson v . Powles ( High Court of Chancery ) 2 Sim . 194 , 212 , 213 ( 1828 ) , Vice Chancellor Shadwell said : " But there is this further ...
... question depended on the questions ( 1 ) whether 22 In the slightly earlier case of Thompson v . Powles ( High Court of Chancery ) 2 Sim . 194 , 212 , 213 ( 1828 ) , Vice Chancellor Shadwell said : " But there is this further ...
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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...