...in our laws or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels,...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." Apart from any municipal regulation, that rule, as regards international duty, is perfectly clear....

...had not the United-States Supreme Court solemnly affirmed in the " Santissima Trinidad" case, that ?? there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, &c."? With such recorded doctrines and practice as this, no wonder that Mr. Seward and Mr. Adams had...

...The Indcpendcncia], 7 Wheaton's Supreme Court Reports, 283. That learned Judge says (p. 340), — " There is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations,...ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation." This rule, then, is perfectly...

...trantitu. In the case of the " Independencia," Mr. Justice Storey said, " But there is nothing in our law, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens...armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign parts for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...

...Judge Story in the case of the Santix*ima Trinidad : — " There is nothing in our lews or in the l*y of nations that forbids our citizens from sending...as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for salo. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the...

...l ' There is nothing,' said Mr Justice Story in the famous case of the ' Santissima Trinidad,' * ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids...our citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munition of war to foreign ports for sale.' Nay further, though without the concurrence of Kent, and...

...in our lawa or in the law of nations (and of course it is to the latter expression I am referring) that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreisn ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which...

...it, cornos within the law as laid down by Judge Story in the case of the Santitsima Trinidad : — " There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizen» from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is...

...to the 55th page of this Appendix, and very near the top of that page, where Mr. Justice Story says, "There " is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations," (and of course, my Lords, it is to that express'on that I am referring, " the law " of nations," for...

...justly condemned as a good prize for being engaged in a traffic punishable by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, which forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports...