That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will... Commentaries on the Law of Nations - Page 128by William Oke Manning - 1839 - 390 pagesFull view - About this book
| Epaphroditus Peck - Domestic relations - 1920 - 548 pages
...king's special favour, during the time of war."27 So it was said in an early American case: "War gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and...confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found. The mitigations of this rigid rule which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1024 pages
...Chief Justice Marshall in Brown v. United States, supra: "That war gives to the sovereign full ripht to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found is conceded. The mitigations of < 1 3.-. NTS) this rigid rule, •which the humane and wise policy... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1923 - 334 pages
...the following statement: "Respecting the power of government, no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and...confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found is conceded. The mitigation of this rigid rule which the humane and wise policy of modern times has... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, James Brown Scott - Awards and Prizes - 1923 - 698 pages
...governed by the same rule. Respecting the power of government no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and...confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations | p. 123 of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern... | |
| Arthur Garfield Hays - Enemy property - 1923 - 424 pages
...1814 (found in 8 Cranch, 122), with reference to confiscation of enemy property, said that "war gives the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy." but admitted that no nation could exercise such a right without "obloquy." It was decided in this case... | |
| John Bassett Moore - Aeronautics, Military - 1924 - 410 pages
...delivered by the Chief Justice, John Marshall, who, in the course of his opinion, said that, while war gave to the sovereign "full right to take the...confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found," yet the "mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times" had "introduced... | |
| Iredell Meares - Trading with the enemy - 1924 - 712 pages
...Crouch 110. As was said by Chief Justice Marshall in Brown vs. United States, supra: "That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and...confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found is conceded. The mitigation of this rigid rule, which the wise and humane policy of modern times has... | |
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