 | United States. Department of State - 1869 - 882 էջ
...Ayres on a commercial adventure in no shape violating our laws or i'iL r national neutrality, aud that there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations...that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels to foreign ports for sale. If the Messrs, Forbes, or any of the owners of the Meteor, or Mr. Cary their... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1874 - 434 էջ
...Story, in the well-known case " Santissiina Trinidad and Santander," laid it down as indisputable that" there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids onr citiaens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1874 - 436 էջ
...vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture which 110 nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged iu it to the penalty of confiscation." But it must be remembered that when Mr. Fish claims compensation... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 810 էջ
...neutrals from sending armed vessels aa well as munitions of war to foreign ports for snle. It is n commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes those engaged In It to the penalty of confiscation. The Santisslma Trinidad (1822), 20 tl. S. (7 Wheat.)... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1915 - 636 էջ
...Works,' [ed. 1854] iii, 558), it was ruled by Mr Justice Story in 1822. ' There is,' said the latter, ' nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - 2004 - 414 էջ
...of it, comes within the law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the Santissima Trinidad: — "There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Equally clear is it, nevertheless, that the transaction bears the impress of a hostile enterprise.... | |
 | Lance E. Davis, Stanley L. Engerman - 2006 - 476 էջ
...would have been justly condemned as a good prize. . . . But there is nothing in our laws or the laws of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons... | |
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But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only... 
