 | John M'Arthur - 1792 - 394 pages
...of an important branch of the law of nations, now denominated the law merchant, or lex mercatoria. In all marine caufes relating to freight, average,...infurances, bottomry and others of a fimilar nature ||, this law is * Paufan. lib. ix. c. 9. p. 728. f Barth. Intro, to Travels of Anacharfis, vol. i.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...univerfal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's deciflons, are not to be confidered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the...; without which it muft ceafe to be a part of the civili2ed world. Thus in mercantile queftions, fuch as bills of exchange and the like ; in all marine... | |
 | John M'Arthur - 1805 - 494 pages
...law of na» tions, now denominated the law merchant, or lex mercatoria. In all maritime queftions, relating to freight, average, demurrage, infurances, bottomry, and others of a fimilar nature ?, this law is regularly and conr ftantJj! : adhered to ; likewife in all difputes relating to prizes,... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1824 - 1090 pages
...law, or to facilitate the " execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as intro" ductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old " fundamental constitutions of the kingdom; without which it " must cease to be a part of the civilized world. Thus,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of it's decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom, without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world. Thus... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom : without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world. Thus... | |
 | Portfolio - 1844 - 766 pages
...enforce, or decisions to facilitate, the execution ; and are therefore considered, not as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom ; and, finally, without which the kingdom itself must cease to be a part... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 770 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of ite decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom, without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world. Thus,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductivo of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the kingdom, without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world. Thus,... | |
 | United States - 1871 - 518 pages
...universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the Kingdom ; without which it must cease to be a part of the civilized world."i In... | |
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... is held to be a part of the law of the land. And those acts of parliament, which have from time to time been made to enforce this universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductive of any new rule,... 
