 A vessel on the high seas beyond the distance of a marine league from the shore, is regarded as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and subjected exclusively to the jurisdiction of that nation.  Niles' National Register - Page 561842Full view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1852 - 580 pages
...doctrines thnt had nearly lost their authority. The great principle, especially, that every vessel is a part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and curries its sovereignly along with her, upon the high seas, or even Into a friendly foreign port, so... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...approbation, that, if a vessel be driven by necessity into a port strictly blockaded, this necessity is a good defence, and exempts her from penalty. A vessel...to the land, or even into port, those who have, or who ought to have, control over her struggling all the while to keep her upon the high seas, and so... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...that necessity exempted the vessel from all penalty and all hazard : that a vessel on the high seas is regarded as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and subject to its exclusive jurisdiction; and if it be forced by such necessity into a forcign port, her... | |
 | Search, Right of - 1861 - 30 pages
...expounder of international law, in his official correspondence with Lord Ashburton, declared that " a vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of...the territory of the nation to which she belongs." He also, in a subsequent letter to the same functionary, held the following language : " The ocean... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1876 - 652 pages
...in supposing that the power of the commander in this respect arises from the ship being considered as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, whereas it arises from the will of the sovereign whose commission she bears, and the acquiescence of... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves - Enslaved persons - 1876 - 350 pages
...in supposing that the power of the commander in this respect arises from the ship being considered as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, whereas it arises from the will of the sovereign whose commission she bears, and the acquiescence of... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1880 - 658 pages
...rule which exists from necessity is applied, that every vessel on the high seas is constructively a part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and its laws are operative on board of her. In this respect the case is new. There can be no question that... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Government publications - 1886 - 876 pages
...Mr. Webster to Mr. Everett, June 29, 1842. See discussion in 2 Beaton's Thirty years in US Senate. "A vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of...belongs, and subjected exclusively to the jurisdiction ofthat nation, if, against the will of her master or owner, she be driven or carried nearer to the... | |
 | Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 866 pages
...Webster, in his tetter to Lord Ashburton, quoted in "VVheaton's Law of Nations, infra, ยง 38, says : ' A vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of...nation. If against the will of her master or owner slie be driven or carried nearer to the land, or even into port, those who have, or ought to have control... | |
 | Francis Wharton - International law - 1887 - 872 pages
...at Parts, to Baron Pasquier, minister of foreign affairs, June 28, 1821; 2 Gallatin's Writings, 186. "A vessel on the high seas, beyond the distance of a marine league from the sbore, is regarded as part of the territory of the nation to which she belongs, and subjected exclusively... | |
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