A Treatise on the Law of Prize

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Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1926 - 384 sider

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Side 117 - Belligerents are bound to respect the sovereign rights of neutral Powers and to abstain, in neutral territory or neutral waters, from any act which would, if knowingly permitted by any Power, constitute a violation of neutrality.
Side 7 - In the second place, the law which the Prize Court is to administer is not the national, or, as it is sometimes called, the municipal law, but the law of nations — in other words, international law.
Side 90 - The rule which this country has been content to apply is, that property so transferred must be bona fide and absolutely transferred; that there must be a sale divesting the enemy of all further interest in it; and that anything tending to continue his interest, vitiates a contract of this description altogether.
Side 84 - The contemplation of war is undoubtedly to be taken in a more restricted sense : but if the contemplation of war leads immediately to the transfer, and becomes the foundation of a contract, that would not otherwise be entered into on the part of the seller, and this is known to be so done in the understanding of the purchaser, though on his part there may be other concurrent motives, as in the case of the Rendsborg,* such a contract cannot be held good, on the same principle that applies to invalidate...
Side 62 - Subject to the provisions respecting transfer to another flag the neutral or enemy character of a vessel is determined by the flag which she is entitled to fly.
Side 58 - ... the full extent But in the East, from the oldest times, an immiscible character has been kept up ; foreigners are not admitted into the general body and mass of the society of the nation ; they continue strangers and sojourners as all their fathers were...
Side 65 - The produce of a person's own plantation in the colony of the enemy, though shipped in time of peace, is liable to be considered as the property of the enemy, by reason that the proprietor has incorporated himself with the permanent interests of the nation as a holder of the soil, and is to be taken as a part of that country, in that particular transaction, independent of his own personal residence and occupation.
Side 77 - But it is unnecessary to examine this question minutely, because an obvious principle of necessity must forbid a prize court from recognizing the doctrine here contended for. If it were once admitted in these courts, there would be an end of all prize condemnations.
Side 19 - This rule of international law is one which prize courts administering the law of nations are bound to take judicial notice of, and to give effect to, in the absence of any treaty or other public act of their own government in relation to the matter.
Side 17 - All law is resolvable into general principles. The cases which may arise under new combinations of circumstances, leading to an extended application of principles, ancient and recognized by just corollaries, may be infinite ; but so long as the continuity of the original and established principles is preserved pure and unbroken, the practice is not new, nor is it justly chargeable with- being an innovation on the ancient law ; when, in fact, the court does nothing more than...

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