Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to Kindred Cases and Authorities, Volume 32William Gould, 1883 |
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Page 415 - State, each and every one declines to exercise by means of its courts any of its territorial jurisdiction over the person of any sovereign or ambassador of any other State, or over the public property of any State which is destined to public use, or over the property of any ambassador, though such sovereign, ambassador, or property be within its territory, and, therefore, but for the common agreement, subject to its jurisdiction.
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Page 96 - Majesty by order in council to direct that the ships of such foreign country shall be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers...
Page 377 - Judges held the conviction right, being unanimously of opinion, that no sentence or act of any foreign country or State could dissolve an English marriage a vinculo matrimonii for grounds on which it was not liable to be dissolved a vinculo matrimonii in England ; and that no divorce of an ecclesiastical court was within the exception in sect.