 It is left by the constitution to the King's authority to grant or refuse a capitulation : if he refuses, and puts the inhabitants to the sword or exterminates them, all the lands belong to him. If he receives the inhabitants under his protection and...  American and British Claims Arbitration - Page 1641913Full view - About this book
 | Bryan Edwards - Agriculture - 1793 - 544 pages
...puts the in^ habitants to the fword, or otbencrfe exterminates them, all the lands belong to himfelf. If he receives the inhabitants under his protection,...grants them their property, he has a power to fix fuch terms and conditions as be thinks proper. He may (faid the noble judge) yield up the conqueft,... | |
 | John Almon - Great Britain - 1797 - 212 pages
...refufes, and puts the inhabitants to the fword, or exterminates them, all the land belongs to him : — If he receives the inhabitants under his protection,...grants them their property, he has a power to fix the terms and conditions : — he is interefted with making the treaty of peace, he may yield up the... | |
 | John Almon - Great Britain - 1797 - 436 pages
...refufes, and puts the inhabitants to the fword, or exterminates ithem, all the land belongs to him i-^-If he receives the inhabitants under his protection,...grants them their property, he has a power to fix the terms and conditions:-!—he is interefted with making the treaty of peace, he may yield up the... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1801 - 640 pages
...puts the inhabitants to the fiaord, or otherwife exterminates them, all the lands belong to himfelf. If he receives the inhabitants under his protection, and grants them their property, he has 3 power to fix fitch terms and conditions as he thinks proper. He may (faid the noble judge) yield... | |
 | George Chalmers - Commercial law - 1814 - 962 pages
...Campbell and Hall. " In the acquisition of conquests, it is limited, by the constitution," says he, " to the king's authority, to grant, or refuse, a capitulation ; if he refuse, and put the inhabitants to the sword, all their lands belong to him ; if he re» Dyer, 22-1... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...peace by which it is ceded, are sacred and inviolable, according to their true intent and meaning. It is left by the constitution to the king's authority to grant or refuse a capitulation ; if he refuses, and puts the inhabitants to the sword, or exterminates them, all the lands belong to him.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 624 pages
...the power ? (ie of putting Granada, as to duties, on the same footing as the other Leward Islands). It is left by the constitution to the King's authority to grant or refuse a capitulation. If he refuses, and puts the inhabitants to the sword, or exterminates them, all the lands belong to him.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 640 pages
...the power ? (ie of putting Granada, as to duties, on the same footing as the other Leward Islands). It is left by the constitution to the King's authority to grant or refuse a capitulation. If he refuses, and puts the inhabitants to the sword, or exterminates them, all the lands belong to him.... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...opinion of the court, delivered by Mr. Justice Baldwin; October term, 1837, page 40. 8. It is left by ihe constitution to the king's authority, to grant or refuse a capitulation; if he refuses, and puts all the inhabitants to the sword, or exterminâtes them all, the land belongs to... | |
 | William Forsyth - Constitutional law - 1869 - 616 pages
...capitulation, and puts the inhabitants to the sword or exterminates them, all the lands belong to him. If he receives the inhabitants under his protection,...fix such terms and conditions as he thinks proper." — Campbell v. Hall, ubi sup. ; and see Smith \. Brown, 2 Salk. 6G6. In Jephson v. Biera, 3 Knapp,... | |
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