Prize Cases Decided in the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1918: Including Also Cases on the Instance Side in which Questions of Prize Law Were Involved, Volume 3 |
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... filed by the | proper District Attor- neys , on behalf of the United States and on behalf of the officers and crews of the ships , by which the captures were respectively made . In each case the District Court pronounced a decree of ...
... filed by the | proper District Attor- neys , on behalf of the United States and on behalf of the officers and crews of the ships , by which the captures were respectively made . In each case the District Court pronounced a decree of ...
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... filed by Renaud for them , and the only claim made , asserted the same facts . The manifest swore to by Renaud , 14th of April , 1862 , at New Orleans , accorded with these statements . The bill of lading represented the cargo as ...
... filed by Renaud for them , and the only claim made , asserted the same facts . The manifest swore to by Renaud , 14th of April , 1862 , at New Orleans , accorded with these statements . The bill of lading represented the cargo as ...
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... filed an affidavit that the master of the Josephine was seeking the blockading fleet with the purpose of procuring a license to proceed on his ' The Anna Catharina , 4 Robinson , 107 ; The Indiana , 2 Gallison , 268 . 1 voyage ; but the ...
... filed an affidavit that the master of the Josephine was seeking the blockading fleet with the purpose of procuring a license to proceed on his ' The Anna Catharina , 4 Robinson , 107 ; The Indiana , 2 Gallison , 268 . 1 voyage ; but the ...
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... filed , considering that there was sufficient cause to bring the vessel and cargo in for adjudi- cation , but not enough to condemn them , restored them both , but restored them without damages or costs . From this last part of the ...
... filed , considering that there was sufficient cause to bring the vessel and cargo in for adjudi- cation , but not enough to condemn them , restored them both , but restored them without damages or costs . From this last part of the ...
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... filing of the claim and the time when the decree was rendered more than two years elapsed . There was time to communicate repeatedly with Rio . Coleman & Co. could have furnished full testi- mony . If the facts were as alleged it would ...
... filing of the claim and the time when the decree was rendered more than two years elapsed . There was time to communicate repeatedly with Rio . Coleman & Co. could have furnished full testi- mony . If the facts were as alleged it would ...
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Page 1938 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 1983 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 1678 - States, do proclaim, declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where rights of third parties shall have intervened...
Page 1890 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 1983 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 1893 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 1439 - Whether the President, in fulfilling his duties as Commanderin-chief in suppressing an insurrection, has met with such armed hostile resistance, and a civil war of such alarming proportions, as will compel him to accord to them the character of belligerents, is a question to be decided by him, and this Court must be governed by the decisions and acts of the political department of the Government to which this power was intrusted. '' He must determine what degree of force the crisis demands.
Page 1828 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it...
Page 1485 - States; and that from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclamation all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with said exceptions, found at sea or in any port of the United States will be forfeited to the United States...
Page 1449 - ... enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.