| Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 580 pages
...Company; the Committees brought up condemnatory reports; and the Commons passed resolutions declaring that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, belonged of right to the state. A motion was made arraigning Clive's proceedings in Bengal... | |
| Courtenay Ilbert - Constitutional law - 1907 - 592 pages
...on tlic motion of (Inn-nil Burgoync, passed two resolutions, (i) that all acquixitionn inaili- l>v military force or by treaty with foreign powers do of right belong to tin- Nlnli- ; (J) that to appropriate such acquisitions to |>rivatĀ« usu is illrgiil. Hut thr nature... | |
| Horace Walpole - Great Britain - 1910 - 686 pages
...palliated as necessary strokes of policy. Burgoyne then read three resolutions he proposed to move : First, that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign force, do of right belong to the State. Second, that to appropriate acquisitions acquired under the... | |
| Courtenay Ilbert - Constitutional law - 1916 - 560 pages
...Commons, on the motion of General Burgoyne, passed two resolutions, (1) that all acquisitions made by military force or by treaty with foreign powers do of right belong to the State ; (:) that to appropriate such acquisitions to private use is illegal. But the nature and extent of... | |
| Sir Alfred C. Lyall - Great Britain - 1920 - 438 pages
...Company ; the Committees brought up condemnatory reports ; and the Commons passed resolutions declaring that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, do of right belong to the State. A motion was made 1 Observations on a Late State of the Nation.... | |
| Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - Great Britain - 1921 - 454 pages
...of the two Committees. On May 10, 1773, Colonel Burgoyne moved three resolutions of importance : ' (i) That all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force or by treaty with foreign princes do of right belong to the state. (2) That to appropriate acquisitions so made to the private... | |
| Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley - 1925 - 816 pages
...mittee to enquire into the affairs of the Com-\ pany. The committee affirmed the general | principle that all acquisitions made under the influence of a military force, or by treaty with foreign princes, belonged of right to the State, and its Chairman proceeded to give it a particular application... | |
| Sir Mark Frank Lindley - Acquisition of territory - 1926 - 424 pages
...India that the House of Commons in 1778 passed resolutions declaring that all acquisitions made by military force, or by treaty with foreign Powers, do of right belong to the iibert, 51. State. In 1784 the Board of Control was established to supervise the directors of the Company... | |
| George III (King of Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1927 - 556 pages
...Resolutions moved in the House of Commons by Gen1 Burgoyne & seconded by Sir Wm Meredith. May 10th. 1773. 1. That all Acquisitions made under the Influence of a Military Force or by Treaty with Foreign Princes do of right belong to the State. 2. That to appropriate Acquisitions so made to the private... | |
| Pramathanath Banerjea - Finance - 1928 - 410 pages
...respect of the Crown's rights. The question was set at rest by a resolution of Parliament which declared that* all acquisitions made under the influence of...military force, or by treaty with foreign powers, did " of right belong to the State." a Fourthly, there was an anomaly incidental to the union of government... | |
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