 | James Stephen - Great Britain - 1806 - 382 pages
...the certain means qf carrying such a right into " effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. " Such colonies are dependent for their existence, "...defended, they must fall to " the belligerent of course; and if the belligerent " chooses to apply his means to such an object, " what right has a third party,... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1807 - 488 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea: such colonies are dependent for their existence, as...defended they must fall to the belligerent of course — and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence, as...if they cannot be supplied and defended, they must tee Lord Er.sk ine's speech, 8th (1) See the French Navigation March 1808, on the Orders in Act, 1... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - International law - 1836 - 470 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent of course. And if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | John Duer - Insurance law - 1845 - 822 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence, as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent, of course ; and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | Richard Wildman - International law - 1849 - 662 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent of course, and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party perfectly... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, William Robinson, Christopher Robinson - Admiralty - 1853 - 568 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence, as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent, of course; and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Henry Philip Roche - War, Maritime (International law) - 1854 - 508 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence, as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent of course ; and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1857 - 660 pages
...Such colonies were dependent for their existence, as colonies, on foreign supplies. If they could not be supplied and defended, they must fall to the belligerent, of course ; and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1860 - 934 pages
...has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect, if he has a decided superiority at sea. Such colonies are dependent for their existence as...defended, they must fall to the belligerent, of course ; and if the belligerent chooses to apply his means to such an object, what right has a third party,... | |
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It is an indubitable right of the belligerent to possess himself of such places, as of any other possession of his enemy. This is his common right; but he has the certain means of carrying such a right into effect if he has a decided superiority at sea.... 
