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... prize . As between these two sources of international law , greater weight is justly attributable to the judgments of mixed tribunals , appointed by the joint consent of the two nations between whom they are to decide , than to those of ...
... prize . As between these two sources of international law , greater weight is justly attributable to the judgments of mixed tribunals , appointed by the joint consent of the two nations between whom they are to decide , than to those of ...
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... prize ships , or goods captured by armaments fitted out in its ports , in violation of its neutrality , and of the laws enacted to enforce that neutrality . ( h ) Sirey , Recueil général de Juris- prudence , tome xxxii . Partie i . p ...
... prize ships , or goods captured by armaments fitted out in its ports , in violation of its neutrality , and of the laws enacted to enforce that neutrality . ( h ) Sirey , Recueil général de Juris- prudence , tome xxxii . Partie i . p ...
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... Prize Court was , that he wished to spare the other passengers the inconvenience of deviating from their voyage . Such a reason was no doubt humane and honourable , but it cannot be taken as sufficient to set aside a universal rule of ...
... Prize Court was , that he wished to spare the other passengers the inconvenience of deviating from their voyage . Such a reason was no doubt humane and honourable , but it cannot be taken as sufficient to set aside a universal rule of ...
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... prize by a Neapolitan Prize Court , and the crew were imprisoned . The Cagliari at the time of her capture carried the Sardinian flag , and on receiving the news of this event , the Sardinian government demanded the release of the ship ...
... prize by a Neapolitan Prize Court , and the crew were imprisoned . The Cagliari at the time of her capture carried the Sardinian flag , and on receiving the news of this event , the Sardinian government demanded the release of the ship ...
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... Prize Court . A Prize Court was not the proper tribunal to hear the case . If The Cagliari was to be adjudicated on at all , it should have been before a municipal Court , and her crew should have been tried as rebels or pirates . As it ...
... Prize Court . A Prize Court was not the proper tribunal to hear the case . If The Cagliari was to be adjudicated on at all , it should have been before a municipal Court , and her crew should have been tried as rebels or pirates . As it ...
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Page 94 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 782 - First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace ; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use.
Page 547 - A neutral government is bound— First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace...
Page 755 - Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. The Neutral Flag covers Enemy's Goods, with the exception of Contraband of War; 3. Neutral Goods, with the exception of Contraband of War, are not liable to capture under Enemy's Flag; 4.
Page 785 - The commissioners, so named, shall meet at London at the earliest convenient period after they shall have been respectively named; and shall, before proceeding to any business, make and subscribe a solemn declaration that they will impartially and carefully examine and decide, to the best of their judgment, and according to justice and equity, without fear, favor, or affection to their own country, upon all such claims as shall be laid before them on the part of the governments of the United States...
Page 751 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 329 - Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 729 - If in the case submitted to the Commissioners either Party shall have specified or alluded to any report or document in its own exclusive possession, without annexing a copy, such Party shall be bound, if the other Party thinks proper to apply for it, to furnish that Party with a copy thereof...
Page 789 - The Government of her Britannic Majesty engages to urge upon the Government of the Dominion of Canada to secure to the citizens of the United States the use of the Welland, St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion on terms of equality with the- inhabitants of the Dominion ; and the Government of the United States engages that the subjects of her Britannic Majesty shall enjoy the use of the St.
Page 727 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.