 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...the extreme severity of the operations of war by land ; but it still remains unrelaxed in respect to maritime warfare ; in which the private property of...indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation.'^ With regard to England, he says this : " The ancient law of England seems to have surpassed in liberality... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...the extreme severity of the operations of war by land ; but it still remains unrelaxed in respect to maritime warfare ; in which the private property of...indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation.'^ With regard to England, he says this : " The ancient law of England seems to have surpassed in liberality... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 714 pages
...money is not good prize, because it was not shipped as cargo. In maritime warfare, private property taken at sea, or afloat in port, is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation. Wheaton's Elements, 400. Besides, money has been recognized by Congress as good prize of war. By the... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1866 - 808 pages
...stifi remains unrelaied in ,¿ respect to maritime warfare, in which the private property or on land. of the enemy taken at sea or afloat in port is indiscriminately...been justified by alleging the usage of considering privatQ property¿ when cap. tured in cities taken by storm, as booty; and the well-known fact that... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1873 - 566 pages
...title was considered the best to be had, and its symbol was a spear. 2. Private property of an enemy at sea, or afloat in port, is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation ; but the title is assured only by condemnation in a competent court of prize. 3. While private property... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1874 - 404 pages
...severity of the operations of war by land," says Wheaton, " it still remains unrelaxed in respect to maritime warfare, in which the private property of...in port, is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscationi" § 2. Attempts to modify it Many able modern writers and statesmen have endeavored to... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1874 - 410 pages
...severity of the operations of war by land," says Wheaton, " it still remains unrelaxed in respect to maritime warfare, in which the private property of...sea or afloat in port, is indiscriminately liable to cap- . tare and confiscation." § 2. Attempts to modify it Many able modern writers and statesmen have... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 566 pages
...title was considered the best to be had, and its symbol was a spear. 2. Private property of an enemy at sea, or afloat in port, is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation ; but the title is assured only by condemnation in a competent court of prize. 3. While private property... | |
 | Sir Samuel Thomas Evans - Awards and Prizes - 1916 - 722 pages
...of capture according to the usage of war on land and sea, Wheaton wrote as follows : " Section 365. The progress of civilisation has slowly, but constantly,...inequality in the operation of the laws of war, by land and sea, has been justified by alleging the usage of considering private property, when captured in cities... | |
 | Ernest Charles Meldon Trehern, Albert Wallace Grant - Prize-courts - 1916 - 718 pages
...of capture according to the usage of war on land and sea, Wheaton wrote as follows : " Section 365. The progress of civilisation has slowly, but constantly,...inequality in the operation of the laws of war, by land and sea, has been justified by alleging the usage of considering private property, when captured in cities... | |
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... maritime warfare, in which the private property of the enemy taken at sea or afloat in port is indiscriminately liable to capture and confiscation. This inequality in the operation of the laws of war, by land... 
