| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 512 pages
...United StatesXvas organized and finally established, it was not only its true policy, but its duty, " to receive the law of nations in its modern state of purity and refinement." Per Judge Wilson hi the case of Ware v. Hylton, 3 Dall. 281. It is contended by the counsel for the... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1852 - 436 pages
...antiquated European law, insisted that " when the United States declared their independence, they were bound to receive the law of nations in its modern state of purity and refinement." The federal Court of Appeals, in 1781, before the Constitution settled many of the great principles... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1852 - 430 pages
...European law, insisted that " when the United States declared their independence, they .were bound to receive the law of nations in its modern state of purity and refinement." The federal Court of Appeals, in 1781, before the Constitution settled many of the great principles... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...construction of the treaty of peace. When the United States declared their independence, they were bound to receive the law of nations in its modern state...of purity and refinement. By every nation, whatever is its form of government, the confiscation of debts has long been considered disreputable ; and, we... | |
| John Christopher Schwab - Confederate States of America - 1901 - 358 pages
...184. Justice Wilson of the United States Supreme Court had held 1 that " by every nation, whatever is its form of government, the confiscation of debts has long been considered disreputable." Another associate counsel claimed that the Confederate Sequestration Act was not justified as a retaliation... | |
| John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1036 pages
...court of Pa. (1792), 2 Dallas, "When the United States declared their independence, they were bound to receive the law of nations in its modern .state of purity and refinement." Wilson, J., in Ware v. Hylton (1796), 3 Dallas, 199, 281. "The law of nations may be considered of... | |
| John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1136 pages
...to Incline to the same opinion, though he refrained from deciding it " By every nation, whatever is its form of government, the confiscation of debts has long been considered disreputable." Wltoon. J.. In Ware v. Hylton (1796), 3 Dall. 199, 281. 14 The confiscation of debts is at once unjust... | |
| John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1132 pages
...to Incline to the same opinion, though he refrained from deciding it. " By every nation, whatever is its form of government, the confiscation of debts has long been considered disreputable.'' Wilson, J.. in Ware r. Hylton (1796), 3 Dall. 199, 281. "The confiscation of debts is at once unjust... | |
| United States - 1906 - 1132 pages
...to incline to the same opinion, though he refrained from deciding it. " By every nation, whatever is its form of government, the confiscation of debts has long been considered disreputable." Wilson. J., in Ware v. Hylton (1796), 3 Dall. 199, 281. "The confiscation of debts is at once unjust... | |
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