Selected Topics Connected with the Laws of Warfare as of August 1, 1914 |
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... restored again at peace , and so the nationality and liabilities of its inhabitants engaged in business change . 3. But a person having a house of commerce in the enemy's country , although actually resident in a neutral country , is ...
... restored again at peace , and so the nationality and liabilities of its inhabitants engaged in business change . 3. But a person having a house of commerce in the enemy's country , although actually resident in a neutral country , is ...
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... restored . In the Report of the English Law Officers ( 1753 ) , in answer to the Prussian Memorial , it was stated that French ships taken before the War of 1741 , were restored by the Admiralty Court , both during the heat of the ...
... restored . In the Report of the English Law Officers ( 1753 ) , in answer to the Prussian Memorial , it was stated that French ships taken before the War of 1741 , were restored by the Admiralty Court , both during the heat of the ...
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... restored ; because to confiscate that species of enemy's property would be for the government to take advantage of its own wrong . The celebrated report of the English law offices of the crown , 1753 , in answer to the Prussian Memorial ...
... restored ; because to confiscate that species of enemy's property would be for the government to take advantage of its own wrong . The celebrated report of the English law offices of the crown , 1753 , in answer to the Prussian Memorial ...
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... of the war with France , 1 Marshall , C. J. , in Brown v . U. S. , 3 Cranch , 110 . 2 The Santa Cruz , 1 C. Rob . , 64 . and since , been restored by sentence of your Majesty's ENEMY PROPERTY IN BELLIGERENT TERRITORY . 167.
... of the war with France , 1 Marshall , C. J. , in Brown v . U. S. , 3 Cranch , 110 . 2 The Santa Cruz , 1 C. Rob . , 64 . and since , been restored by sentence of your Majesty's ENEMY PROPERTY IN BELLIGERENT TERRITORY . 167.
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Joseph Richardson Baker, Louis Wagner McKernan. and since , been restored by sentence of your Majesty's courts to the French owners . No such ships or effects ever were attempted to be confiscated as enemy's property , here , during the ...
Joseph Richardson Baker, Louis Wagner McKernan. and since , been restored by sentence of your Majesty's courts to the French owners . No such ships or effects ever were attempted to be confiscated as enemy's property , here , during the ...
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Page 233 - Majesty's dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 784 - The inhabitants of the territories which his catholic majesty cedes to the United States, by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the federal constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, rights and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Page 151 - God forbid, the two Contracting parties should be engaged in a War with each other, they have agreed and do agree, now for then, that there shall be allowed the term of Six months to the Merchants residing on the Coasts and in the ports of each other, and the term of one year to those who dwell in the Interior to arrange their business and...
Page 481 - Any person who in time of war shall be found lurking or acting as a spy in or about any of the fortifications, posts, quarters, or encampments of any of the armies of the United States, or elsewhere, shall be tried by a general court-martial or by a military commission, and shall, on conviction thereof, suffer death.
Page 123 - Upon the entrance of the armies of either nation into the territories of the other, women and children, ecclesiastics, scholars of every faculty, cultivators of the earth, merchants, artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen, unarmed and inhabiting unfortified towns, villages or places, and in general all persons whose occupations are for the common subsistence and benefit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue their respective employments, unmolested in their persons.
Page 124 - ... to individuals or to the state, shall not be liable to seizure or sequestration, or to any other charges or demands than those which may be made upon the...
Page 233 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish.
Page 6 - The existence of a state of war must be notified to the neutral Powers without delay, and shall not take effect in regard to them until after the receipt of a notification, which may, however, be given by telegraph. Neutral Powers, nevertheless, cannot rely on the absence of notification if it is clearly established that they were in fact aware of the existence of a state of war.
Page 150 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 263 - It is agreed that British subjects who now hold lands in the territories of the United States, and American citizens who now hold lands in the dominions of His Majesty, shall continue to hold them according to the nature and tenure of their respective estates and titles therein; and may grant, sell, or devise the same to whom they please, in like manner as if they were natives; and that neither they nor their heirs or assigns shall, so far as may respect the said lands and the legal remedies incident...