But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only... Annual Register - Seite 257herausgegeben von - 1870Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| United States. Department of State - 1869 - 878 Seiten
...engaged in u traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes... | |
| Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Santissima Trinidad, 7, Wheat. 353, " in our own laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
| Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 Seiten
...engaged in a traffic prohibited by the Law of Nations. But there is nothing in our Laws, or in the Law of Nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no Nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 240 Seiten
...conclusive authority it would be impossible to adduce:— There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
| Sir Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 Seiten
...punishable by the Law of Nations. But there is nothing in our Laws, or in the Law of Nations, which forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no Nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to... | |
| Reverdy Johnson - 1863 - 764 Seiten
...violating our laws, or our national neutrality ; " and that there was nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale ; it being a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
| 1863 - 624 Seiten
...in a traffic prohibited ' by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in ' the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale.' We will not affirm that this is good law ; but, at any rate, it is law which cannot be impugned by... | |
| Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - 1863 - 794 Seiten
...There is nothing in the laws of the United States, or in the laws of nations, that forbids neutrals from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of...war, to foreign ports, for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes those engaged in it to the... | |
| Frederick Waymouth Gibbs - 1863 - 136 Seiten
...But there is nothing in our laws " or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from send" ing armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign " ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no " nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the " persons engaged in it... | |
| Felix Hargrave Hamel - 1863 - 136 Seiten
...Story in the supreme court of the United States, that "there is nothing in " our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our " citizens from sending armed vessels as well as muni" tions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commer" cial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
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