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" Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent... "
State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession ... - Page 362
1817
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The Congressional Reporter

United States - 1811 - 676 pages
...exercise of a belligerept right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged, without a regular investigation...practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects a]one, that under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard...
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Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, Volume 22

Great Britain - 1812 - 448 pages
...exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged, without a regular investigation...rights of persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected to the will of every petty Commander. The practice, hence, is so...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 22

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1812 - 446 pages
...war, which " forbid an article of captured property to " be adjudged without a regular iuvestiga" tion before a competent tribunal, would " imperiously demand...rights of persons were " at issue. In place of such trial, these " rights are subjected to the will of every " petty commander. — The practice, hence,...
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Niles' National Register, Volume 2

1812 - 438 pages
...a competent tribunali ^ i) PC tent tr would imperiftusTy demand the fairest trial where the sacred of persons were at issue. In place of such a trial, these rights are subk-cted to the will of ev. ._. ,_--, command-i The practice, hence, is so far from affecting British...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 54

History - 1813 - 818 pages
...exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation...rights of persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected to the will of- every petty commander. The practice, hence, is so...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history ..., Volume 33

1813 - 1082 pages
...the sacred rights ot "persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected 'o the will of every petty commander. The practice, hence,...subjects alone, that under the pretext of searching fox these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of pnblic laws and of their national...
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The Historical Register of the United States: From the declaration of war in ...

Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 548 pages
...exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged, without a regular investigation...rights of persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander; •frot. n; U v . » • The...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volumes 1-2; Volume 5

Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
...exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation...the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place or such trial, these rights are subjected to the will of every petty commander. The practice, hence,...
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The Historical Register of the United States: From the declaration of war in ...

Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 504 pages
...imperiously demand the fairest trial, where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected to the will of every...from affecting British subjects alone, that under the pretexts of searching for these, thousands of American citizens under the safeguard of public law,...
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The History of the War, Between the United States and Great-Britain, which ...

United States - 1815 - 410 pages
...war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged, without a regular inves~ tigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand...issue. In place of such a trial* these rights are sub" jected to the will of every petty commander. The practice, hence, is so far from affecting British...
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