Lord Stowell, His Life and the Development of English Prize Law

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Constable Limited, 1916 - 116 sider

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Side 11 - Lectures were once useful ; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. If your attention fails, and you miss a part of the lecture, it is lost ; you cannot go back as you do upon a book.
Side 41 - I trust that it has not escaped my anxious recollection for one moment what it is that the duty of my station calls for from me; — namely, to consider myself as stationed here, not to deliver occasional and shifting opinions to serve present purposes of particular national interest...
Side 96 - I think, not tenable to the extent in which it has been thrown out ; for though in the ordinary state of things he is a stranger to the cargo, beyond the purposes of safe custody and conveyance, yet in cases of instant and unforeseen and unprovided necessity, the character of agent and supercargo is forced upon him, not by the immediate act and appointment of the owner, but by the general policy of the law...
Side 105 - When goods are clearly intended to become incorporated in the mass of merchandise for sale in a neutral country, it is an unwarranted and inquisitorial proceeding to detain shipments for examination as to whether those goods are ultimately destined for the enemy's country or use. Whatever may be the conjectural conclusions to be drawn from trade statistics, which, when stated by value, are of uncertain evidence...
Side 54 - A blockade is a sort of circumvallation round a place, by which all foreign connexion and correspondence is, as far as human force can effect it, to be entirely cut off. It is intended to suspend the entire commerce of that place; and a neutral is no more at liberty to assist the traffic of exportation than of importation.
Side 87 - is well known that a declaration of hostilities naturally carries with " it an interdiction of all commercial intercourse ; it leaves the " belligerent countries in a state that is inconsistent with the relations "of commerce.
Side 84 - If there is no change of property, there can be no change of national character. Those lending money on such security, take this security subject to all the chances incident to it, and amongst the rest, the chances of war.
Side 107 - In the presence of facts such as those indicated above, the United States Government will, it is believed, agree with His Majesty's Government that no belligerent could in modern times submit to be bound by a rule that no goods could be seized unless they were accompanied by papers which established their destination to an enemy country, and that all detentions of ships and goods must uniformly be based on proofs obtained at the time of seizure. To press any such theory is tantamount to asking that...
Side 74 - Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 1. During the present hostilities the provisions of the Convention known as the Declaration of London shall, subject to the exclusion of the lists of contraband and noncontraband, and to the modifications hereinafter set out, be adopted and put in force by His Majesty's Government.
Side 44 - Where it is neutral, the act of destruction cannot be justified to the neutral owner by the gravest importance of such an act to the public service of the captor's own state ; to the neutral it can only be justified under such circumstances by a full restitution in value.

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