Institutes of International Law, Band 1

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T. & G.W. Johnson, 1850
 

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Seite 94 - in case either of their royal majesties, who are allied, should be engaged in war, the ships and vessels belonging to the subjects of the other ally must be furnished with sea letters or passports, expressing the name, property and bulk of the ship, as also the name and place of habitation of the
Seite 149 - goods whatever, which have not been worked into the form of any instrument or furniture for warlike use, by land or by sea, be reputed contraband, much less such as have been already wrought or made up for any other purpose; all which things shall be deemed goods not contraband, as likewise all others which
Seite 146 - hereby declared to be just objects of confiscation, whenever they are attempted to be carried to an enemy. And, whereas the difficulty of agreeing on the precise cases, in which alone provisions and other articles not generally contraband may be regarded as such, renders it expedient to provide against the inconveniences and misunderstandings that might
Seite 35 - But the situation of a public armed ship is in all respects different. She constitutes a part of the military force of her nation, acts under the immediate and direct command of the sovereign, is employed by him for national objects. He has many and powerful motives for preventing those objects from being defeated by
Seite 36 - the interference of a foreign state. Such interference cannot take place without affecting his power and his dignity. The implied license, therefore, under which such a vessel enters a foreign port ought to be construed as containing an exemption from the jurisdiction of a sovereign within whose territory she claims the right of hospitality.
Seite 21 - if at any time a rupture should take place between his Majesty and the United States, the merchants and others of each of the two nations residing in the dominions of the other shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their trade, so long as they
Seite 146 - in order to regulate what shall in future be deemed contraband of war, it is agreed, that under the said denomination shall be comprised all arms and implements serving for the purposes of war by land or by sea ; such as cannon, muskets, mortars, petards, bombs, grenades, carcasses, saucisses, carriages for cannon, musket-rests,
Seite 16 - has been represented, a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other. It proves the existence of actual hostilities on one side at least, and puts the other party also into a state of war, though he may, perhaps, think proper to act on the defensive only.
Seite 30 - how the law of nations in the given case is understood in that country, and will be considered in adopting the rule, which is to prevail in this. Without taking a comparative view of the justice or fairness of the rules established in the British Courts, and of those established in the Courts
Seite 22 - any other footing than that of the direct permission of the state. Who can be insensible to the consequences that might follow, if every person in time of war had a right to carry on a commercial intercourse with the enemy, and under colour of that had the means of carrying on

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