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| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 662 pages
...Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adj udged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperiously demand the... | |
| New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - Governors - 1898 - 938 pages
...Could the seizure of British subjects In such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under ths pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard... | |
| James Madison - Constitutional history - 1908 - 484 pages
...Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 408 pages
..."Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...of such a trial, these rights are subjected to the wM of every petty commander." * While the war was waging, the subject was still discussed. Mr. Grundy,... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1900 - 818 pages
...such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a ^^^"g1 ••••! tight, the •* lnn»»|mly<d laws of war, which forbid an article of captured property to be adjudged without a regular investigation bcfmc a competent •• Hantai would imperíonslv demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights... | |
| William Wallace Bates - Merchant marine - 1902 - 506 pages
...property to be adjudged without a regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperatively demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of...practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard... | |
| William Wallace Bates - Merchant marine - 1902 - 506 pages
...Could the seizure of British subjects in such cases be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...regular investigation before a competent tribunal, would imperatively demand the fairest trial where the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...such cases he regarded tographs of the signers, which she had as within the exercise of a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...practice, hence, is so far from affecting British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...the seizure of British subjects, in such cases, be regarded as within the cxerci-eof a belligerent right, the acknowledged laws of war, which forbid...tribunal, would imperiously demand the fairest trial, wbere the sacred rights of persons were at issue. In place of such trial, these rights are subjected... | |
| Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Great Britain - 1841 - 888 pages
...of British Subjects in such cases be rcgarded as within thé exercise of a Belligerent right, thé acknowledged Laws of War, which forbid an article...adjudged without a regular investigation before a compétent Tribunal, would imperiously demand thé fairest trial, where thé sacred rights of Pcrsous... | |
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