...business which Congress could not be supposed to have prohibited, unless the intent was plain. 2. That an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other construction were possible, and consequently should not be construed to violate neutral rights or commerce....

...business which Congress could not l>e supposed to have prohibited, unless the intent was plain. 2. That an act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other construction were possible, and consequently should not be construed to violate neutral rights or commerce....

...Authority. Wenn also Wharton8 die Forderung aufstellt: „An act of Congress ought never to be constructed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains", so ist eine solche doch nur cum grano salis zu nehmen. Denn in dem wichtigsten, hier interessierenden...

...Authority. Wenn also Wharton8 die Forderung aufstellt: „An act of Congress ought never to be constructed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains", so ist eine solche doch nur cum grano salis zu nehmen. Denn in dem wichtigsten, hier interessierenden...

...Charming Betsy (1804), 2 Cr. 64, 118, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall said : It has also been observed that an act of Congress ought never to be construed to...the law of nations as understood in this country. And in the Nereide (1815), 9 Cr. 388, 423, the same eminent authority said: Till such an act [of Congress]...

...is explained by the preceding statement of the Chief Justice, in the same sentence, that such an Act ought never to be construed to violate the law of...nations "if any other possible construction remains." In regard to a British Order in Council affecting the rules of decision in prize cases, the author...

...like an Act of Congress in the United States, according to the celebrated dictum of Marshall, CJ, " ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains."3 Professor Westlake has stated concerning the law that should 1 Quoted in the Encyclopaedia...

...due to them. The Supreme Court of the United States, as early as 1804, rendered a decision that even "Act of Congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations." It is not necessary to seek far for innumerable instances where the court protected the unprotected...

...v. Stewart, 11 Wall., 244, 253. The Ratification Act of June 30, 1906, should not be so construed as to violate the law of nations, if any other possible construction remains. International law is a part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice...

...to infract the common principles and usages of nations or the general doctrines of national law." 82 An act of Congress ought never to be construed to...the law of nations as understood in this country." ss The intercourse of the United States "with foreign nations and its policy in regard to them, are...