 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 532 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...vessels belong, and a self-redress is assumed which, if BritHue. «tAnisoi». ish subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that subto fall... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 794 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...laws of the country to which the vessels belong." This, with other grievances, led to the declaration of war June 18, 1812. In speaking of the effect... | |
 | Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro - International law - 1916 - 540 pages
...municipal law of allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws could operate "but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong." Precisely the same position was maintained by Webster in his correspondence with Lord Ashburton in... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1917 - 592 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...of the country to which the vessels belong, and a self -redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Political Science - 1918 - 508 pages
...municipal law of allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws could operate " but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong." Precisely the same position was maintained by Webster in his correspondence with Lord Ashburton in... | |
 | Charles Emanuel Martin, William Henry George - United States - 1927 - 794 pages
...vessels on the high seas, where, as President Madison declared in his war message, no laws could apply "but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong.'' The message did not recommend a war with Great Britain in express terms, but it pointed strongly to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...nations against an enemy, but of .a municipal prerogative ovrr British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation...of nations and the laws of the country to which the vesstU belong; and a selfredress is assumed, which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1841 - 888 pages
...Nations against an Enemy, but of a municipal prérogative over British Subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to Neutral Vessels, in a situation where no Laws eau operale but thé Law of Nations and thé Laws of thé Country to which thé Vessels belong; and... | |
 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan - International law - 1990 - 228 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"; "Special Message to Congress," The Writings of James Madison:... | |
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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... 
