 | Law - 1924 - 490 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than displace the sovereign and assume domimion 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. War Department - 1943 - 102 pages
...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, would be violated, and that sense of justice and right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would... | |
 | H. Lauterpacht - Law - 1945 - 570 pages
...in United States v. Percheman, 7 Pet. 51, 86, 8 L. Ed. 604, says that, even in cases of conquest, ' the modern usage of nations, which has become law,...if private property should be generally confiscated '. . . . " We feel no hesitation in saying, therefore, that nothing can be found in our laws or. proceedings... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1947 - 806 pages
...51, 86), said that, even in case of conquest, "the modern usage of nations, which has become l»w, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right...private property should be generally confiscated." John Bassett Moore, in his Digest of International Law, volume 7, pages 312 and 313, says that the... | |
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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... 
