 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 564 pages
...foreign countries must, in all ordinar y cases in which orders or declarations of right may be sued, end in requests for justice, which might be made without...persons should be amenable to the courts of justice. Such is the general rule; but in cases where either party has no superior by whom obedience can be... | |
 | Law - 1851 - 488 pages
...but that if you exonerate the prince himself, justice fails altogether." But he concludes, " I think on the whole it ought to be considered as a general...exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts there;" and Wheaton lays down similar doctrine, citing authorities, however, which do not bear out his position.... | |
 | Law - 1851 - 484 pages
...but that if you exonerate the prince himself, justice fails altogether." But he concludes, " I think on the whole it ought to be considered as a general...is exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts there ;" and Wheaton lays down similar doctrine, citing authorities, however, which do not bear out his position.6... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...foreign countries must, in all ordinary cases in which orders or declarations of right may be sued, end in requests for justice, which might be made without...persons should be amenable to the Courts of Justice. Such is the general rule; but in cases where either party has no superior by whom obedience can be... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...foreign countries must, in all ordinary cases in which orders or declarations of right may be sued, end in requests for justice, which might be made without...persons should be amenable to the Courts of Justice. Such is the general rule; but in cases where either party has no superior by whom obedience can be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 788 pages
...fully set forth, and the conclusion announced " that it is a general rule, in accordance with the laws of nations, that a sovereign prince, resident in the...from the jurisdiction of the courts there." It is clear the constitution did not abrogate any law of nations, and the only question is whether the States... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 682 pages
...whole, it ought CT. OP APP.] THE PAKLEMENT BELGE. [Ci. or Apr. to be considered as a general rale, in accordance with the law of nations, that a sovereign...resident in the dominions of another is exempt from the iurisdiction of the courts here." From all these authorities it si-ems to us, although other reasons... | |
 | John Alderson Foote - Conflict of laws - 1878 - 576 pages
...from the jurisdiction, had been held bound to submit to it. " On the whole," said Lord Langdale, " it ought to be considered as a general rule, in accordance...is exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts there " (a). It has, however, happened that the characters of Sove• reign and subject have at the same... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1016 pages
...than attempts to obtain it by violating immunities thought necessary to the independence of princess and nations, I think that on the whole it ought to...exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts there." From all these authorities it seems to us, although other reasons have sometimes been suggested, that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1108 pages
...fully set forth, and the conclusion announced "that it is a general rule, in accordance with the laws of nations, that a sovereign prince, resident in the...from the jurisdiction of the courts there." It is clear the Constitution did not abrogate any law of nations, and the only question is, whether the States... | |
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... in requests for justice, which might be made without any suit at all; that even the failure of justice, in some particular cases, would be less prejudicial than attempts to obtain it by violating immunities thought necessary to the independence of... 
