| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1024 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...property should be generally confiscated, and private risrhts annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1923 - 738 pages
...: The modern usages of nations which have become law would be violated ; thnt sense of Justice und of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would lie outraged if private property should be generally confiscated and private rights annulled. I might... | |
| Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1924 - 530 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...private property should be generally confiscated, or private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign... | |
| John Bassett Moore - Aeronautics, Military - 1924 - 410 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...violated; that sense of justice and of right which is felt and acknowledged by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on war claims - 1925 - 468 pages
...the declaration of war." In US v. Percheman (7 Peters 51, 8 L. Ed. 604) Chief Justice Marshall said: "The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...generally confiscated, and private rights annulled." In Hanger v. Abbott (6 Wall. 532, 18 L. Ed. 939) the Supreme Court said: "In former times the right... | |
| Latin America - 1925 - 520 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...generally confiscated and private rights annulled.»« However strong the occupying military power, its authority is reduced by law to what is strictly indispensable... | |
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