 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations, against an enemy,...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to :ral vessels in a situation where no aws can operate but the law of naions and the laws of the country... | |
 | Gideon Miner Davison, Samuel Williams - United States - 1815 - 126 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy,...of the country to which the vessels belong : and a self redress is assumed, which, if British subject were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | C. H. Gifford - Europe - 1817 - 904 pages
...and of seizing and carrying off' persons sailing under it; -not in the ex- . ercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations, against an enemy,...assumed, which if British subjects were wrongfully de10 Y BOOK XI. tained and alone concerned, is that substitution of ' force for a resort to the responsible... | |
 | United States - 1819 - 524 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right^ founded on the law of nations against an enemy,...extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where DO laws can operate but the law of nations, and the laws of tbe country to which the vessels belong... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1819 - 484 pages
...nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British 1 " More than six months had passed since Congress met, and the question of actual war was still in... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 520 pages
...enemy,. , 498 Treaty of Peace with Great Britain 50* PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. 3\me 1, 1813. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. 1 COMMUNICATE...the vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed, which/if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...not in the ' exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, ' hut of a municipal prerogative over British subjects....neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate bat ' the law of nations anrl the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; ' and a self-redress... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...prerogative over British objects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situanon where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the txrantry to which the vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were... | |
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British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against... 
