 | Andrew Lenner - 2001 - 248 pages
...it; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against the enemy, but a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British...nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong,96 It was not the return of British sailors that Americans opposed, but the means by which the... | |
 | 1862 - 650 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizinf and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations,...assumed, which if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign,... | |
 | Russell D. Buhite - 2003 - 420 pages
...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...assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution offoree for a resort to the responsible sovereign... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1815 - 422 pages
...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...vessels belong; and a self-redress is assumed, which if the British subjects were wrongfully detained, and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for... | |
 | United States. President - 1858 - 802 pages
...great highway of nations, and seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations...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... | |
 | 1814 - 536 pages
...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,...subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neuAPPENDIX.— STATE PAPERS. tral vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1858 - 604 pages
...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,...enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subj ects. British j urisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws... | |
 | 1905 - 1102 pages
...municipal law of allegiance on board the ships of other countries on the high seas, where no laws coul<l 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... | |
 | 1812 - 1092 pages
...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 prerpgative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels in a situation... | |
 | 1815 - 738 pages
...highway of nations, and of seizing and earrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exereise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a munieipal prerogative over British subjeets. British jurisdietion is thus extended to neutral vessels,... | |
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British Cruisers have been in the continued practice 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... 
