 | Edmund Burke - History - 1870 - 712 pages
...armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." But it must be remembered that when Mr. Fish claims compensation for all her depredations, he should... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 694 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation, Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
 | England - 1864 - 814 pages
...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 exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports, p. 348.) Ships of war... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' (' Santissima Trinidad,' 7 Wheaton, p. 283.) Nearly a century later Mr Secretary Bryan re-affirmed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1822 - 666 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ay res... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1828 - 432 pages
...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu, by the belligerent... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial purposes, and the sale at Buenos Ayres... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 728 pages
...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiseation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject to seizure in transitu,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...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...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." (Secretary Webster's Instructions to Thompson, our Minister to Mexicv. 7 Wheat. 340. 1 Renfs Com. 141,... | |
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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... 
