 | H. Lauterpacht - Business & Economics - 1986 - 1088 pages
...would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights anulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation...application to the case of an amicable cession of territory ? . . . A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property belonging to its... | |
 | José López Baralt - Law - 1999 - 400 pages
...rule of the law of nations, and is universally admitted." Halleck, International Law, 2 vol. p. 493. "The people change their allegiance; their relation...to the case of an amicable cession of territory?" ..."On the cession of territory by one nation to another, those internal laws and regulations of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 990 pages
...change their allegiance; their -relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations tu each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed....application to the case of an amicable cession of territory? Had Florida changed its sovereign by an Act containing no stipulation respecting the property of individuals,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1346 pages
...dissolved; but their relations to each other and their rights of property remain undisturbed. If ibis be the modern rule, even •In cases of conquest,...application to the case of an amicable cession of terri tory t" íV« are next directed to consider the stipulations of the treaties between the two... | |
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The people change their allegiance ; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved ; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed. If this be the modern rule, even in cases of conquest, who can doubt its... 
