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afford agreed Albericus Gentilis allowed Armed Neutrality authority belligerent belonging blockade board the ships Britain British Bynkershoek capture cargo carry Causes Célèbres claim colonies confederacy confiscated considered Consolato contraband Corps Dip courts declared decree Denmark Droit des Gens Dumont Dutch enemy's property engaged England exercise existing expressly found on board freight French Grotius Heineccius Holy Alliance hostilities Hübner injury instances interference Jure justice justify King Klüber law of Europe Law of Nations law of nature levies Lord Liverpool's maritime Martens merchant naval neutral commerce neutral country neutral ships neutral vessels opinion passage peace port positive law practice present principle prisoners prize prize law provisions Prussian Quæst question ransom reason regard reprisals rights of neutrals rule Russia says ships make free sovereign Spain stipulation Supp Sweden territory tion traband trade troops United Provinces usage Valin Vattel violation warfare writers
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Page 66 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 306 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband, so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals.
Page 128 - That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will more or less affect the exercise of this right, but cannot impair the right itself.
Page 149 - The lawfulness of the end does not give us a real right to anything farther than barely the means necessary for the attainment of that end. Whatever we do beyond that, is reprobated by the law of nature, is faulty, and condemnable at the tribunal of conscience. Hence it is, that the right to such or such acts of hostility varies according to circumstances. What is just and perfectly innocent in war, in one particular situation, is not always so on other occasions. Right goes...
Page 197 - But without reference to accidents of the one kind or other, the general rule is, that the neutral has a right to carry on, in time of war, his accustomed trade to the utmost extent of which that accustomed trade is capable.
Page 205 - For men will sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Page 82 - Holy and Indivisible Trinity, " Their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of Russia...
Page 338 - Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no vessel shall be permitted to trade from one port to another, both which ports shall belong to, or be in the possession of France or her allies, or shall be so far under their control as that British vessels may not freely trade thereat...
Page 306 - But in the case supposed of a vessel stopped for articles of contraband, if the master of the vessel stopped will deliver out the goods supposed to be of contraband nature, he shall be admitted to do it, and the vessel shall not in that case be carried into any port, nor further detained, but shall be allowed to proceed on her voyage.