 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 510 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...force,- for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 522 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...force, for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which .falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded... | |
 | John Brannan - United States - 1823 - 520 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...the vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed, which/if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force,... | |
 | 1852
...compared the seizure of supposed British seamen in American vessels on the " great highway of nations," to that '•' substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war." He affirmed, that under this pretext, thousands of American citizens... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1811 - 650 pages
...of nations against an enemy, >ut a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation...detained and alone concerned, is that substitution offeree, for a resort to the responsible Sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...nations against an enemy, ' hut of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is ' thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate bat ' the law of nations anrl the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; ' and a self-redress... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1852 - 688 pages
...compared the seizure of osed British seamen in American vessels on the " great highway of nations," to that " substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war." He affirmed, that under this pretext, thousands of American citizens... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...prerogative over British objects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situanon where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the txrantry to which the vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed, which, if British subjects were... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...government presents a scries of acts hostile to the United States, as an independant and neutral nation. situation where no laws can operate, but the law of...country to which the vessels belong ; and a self-redress assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained an 1 alone concerned, is that substitution... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction : - thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of uations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong, and a selfredress is assumed, which,... | |
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... of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over... 
