 | 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Enemy property - 1926 - 1456 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the soverign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations which has become law would...should be generally confiscated and private rights unnnlled. * • * If this be the modern rule, even in cases of conquest, who can doubt its application... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1927 - 820 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. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committe on finance - 1927 - 438 pages
...in waging war the United States has, as one of its war powers, the right to confiscate, still — " The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that the sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Enemy property - 1927 - 404 pages
...in waging war the United States has, as one of its war powers, the right to confiscate, still — " The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that the sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would... | |
 | John Gaines Hervey - Courts - 1928 - 198 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," p. 86. 6S 234 NY, 1923, 372. •a A number of cases are cited, among which are, Porto Rico vs. Rosaly... | |
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The modern usage of nations, which has become law," — mark the words, Mr. Speaker, — " the modern usage of nations, which has become law," — — " would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole... 
