...the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, says thus : ' 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...

...international law) for the United States Supreme Court in the Santissima Trinidad (7 Wheaton, p. 240), that ''there is 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...

...condemned as a good prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of uatious. But there is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids.!' He must mean in the sense which Mr. Baron Bramwell put upon it, because he has just said it was traffic...

...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 expression that I am referring, "the law of nations," for I...

...laws, or in the laws of nations , that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, äs well aa munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to...

...tb 55th* page of this appendix, and very ivear 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 expression that I am referring, "the law of nations," for I...

...neutrality. " There is nothing" (says the high authority of Mr. Justice Story), " in our laws, or in the laws of " nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to " foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial advcn" ture wliich no nation is bound to prohibit, and " which only exposes the persons engaged in...

...neutrality. " There is nothing," jays the high authority of Mr. Justice Story, " in >ur laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It sa commercial adventure which no nation is >ound to prohibit, and which only exposes the 'enalty of...

...denominated " contraband of war/' is a valid contract. It is merely a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes...persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Such goods are liable to seizure in transitu by the belligerent cruisers, and so far it is a case of...

...he United States — held to apply to that vessel, in which that learned Judge said — " There ¡3 nothing in our laws or in the law of nations that forbids our citizens from sending armed тевясЬ as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture which...