 Lord Stowell (1 Dodson, 247) observes : " It is not the less a war on that account, for war may exist without a declaration on either side. It is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not...  Niles' National Register - Page 1861841Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, John Dodson - Admiralty - 1815 - 540 pages
...that account, for war may exift without a declaration on either fide. It is fo laid down by the beft writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only is not, as has been reprefented, a mere challenge, to be" accepted or refufed at pleafure by the other. It proves the exiTEence... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...which can only pursue that course in regard to such property as Congress may direct.* According to the best writers on the law of nations a declaration of war by the sovereign power of one state against another, implies that the whole nation declares war; and that... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...which can only pursue that course in regard to such property as Congress may direct.* According to the best writers on the law of nations a declaration of war by the sovereign power of one state against another, implies that the whole nation declares war ; and... | |
 | Richard Wildman - International law - 1849 - 662 pages
...interval between the declaration and the commencement of hostilities (i). But war may exist without any declaration on either side. It is so laid down by...law of nations. A declaration of war by one country is not, as it has been represented, a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other.... | |
 | George Atkinson - Christian ethics - 1851 - 166 pages
...venture to predict (if affirmed at all), not for the reason given by Sir W. Scott, namely, because " it is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations," but because of the language of the treaty which estopped the parties from saying that war did not exist... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Henry Philip Roche - War, Maritime (International law) - 1854 - 498 pages
...without a declaration on either side. "War," says Lord Stowell, in The Eliza Ann (1 Dodson, 247), " may exist without a declaration on either side. It...nations. A declaration of war by one country only is not a mere challenge, to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other. It proves the existence of actual... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - Capture at sea - 1863 - 536 pages
...nations of Europe as well as of the the existing United States. "War," says Lord Sto well, " may lawfully exist without a declaration on either side. It is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations."8 In the war declared by the United States against Great Britain in 181'2, hostilities were... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 832 pages
...although the declaration of it be s' unilateral." Lord STOWELL (1 Dodson 247) observes: "It is not the less a war on that account, for war may exist without a decla ration on cither side. It is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 830 pages
...although the declaration of it be " unilateral." Lord STOWELL (1 Dodson 247) observes: " It is not the less a war on that account, for war may exist without a decla ration on either side. It is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration... | |
 | William Whiting - Executive power - 1864 - 376 pages
...although the declaration of it be "unilateral." Lord Stowell (1 Dodson, U47) observes, " It is not the less a war on that account, for war may exist without...nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge, to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other." This greatest of civil wars... | |
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