A Selection of Cases on the Conflict of Laws, 1. köideHarvard Law review publishing association, 1900 |
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... belonging to the state owning the coast , has , with but very few exceptions , been accepted and adopted by the publicists who have followed him during the last two centuries . But it is equally clear that , in the practical application ...
... belonging to the state owning the coast , has , with but very few exceptions , been accepted and adopted by the publicists who have followed him during the last two centuries . But it is equally clear that , in the practical application ...
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... belong to the Crown . The matter having been referred to Sir John Patteson , his decision as to the mines and minerals below low - water mark was in favor of the Crown ; with reference to the others , in favor of the duchy . Not having ...
... belong to the Crown . The matter having been referred to Sir John Patteson , his decision as to the mines and minerals below low - water mark was in favor of the Crown ; with reference to the others , in favor of the duchy . Not having ...
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... belong to Her Majesty by virtue of any ownership in the soil . He confines him- self to awarding that the right to such mines and minerals is vested in Her Majesty in right of her Crown . " What the grounds were on which this decision ...
... belong to Her Majesty by virtue of any ownership in the soil . He confines him- self to awarding that the right to such mines and minerals is vested in Her Majesty in right of her Crown . " What the grounds were on which this decision ...
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... belonging , for these purposes , to the local state . But it is scarcely logical to infer , from such treaties alone , that , because nations have agreed to treat the littoral sea as belonging to the country it adjoins , for certain ...
... belonging , for these purposes , to the local state . But it is scarcely logical to infer , from such treaties alone , that , because nations have agreed to treat the littoral sea as belonging to the country it adjoins , for certain ...
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... belong to the respective countries , on grounds of sense if not of necessity , belong to them as territory of sovereignty , in property , exclusively , so that the authority of France or Spain , of Holland or England , is the only ...
... belong to the respective countries , on grounds of sense if not of necessity , belong to them as territory of sovereignty , in property , exclusively , so that the authority of France or Spain , of Holland or England , is the only ...
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Page 31 - Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 121 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Page 346 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 94 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 118 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 24 - When private individuals of one nation spread themselves through another as business or caprice may direct, mingling indiscriminately with the inhabitants of that other, or when merchant vessels enter for the purposes of trade, it would be obviously inconvenient and dangerous to society, and would subject the laws to continual infraction, and the government to degradation, if such individuals or merchants did not owe temporary and local allegiance, and were not amenable to the jurisdiction of the...
Page 185 - Scotland to confirmation, if the same be made according to the forms required either by the law of the place where the same was made or by the law of the place where such person was domiciled when the same was made, or by the laws then in force in that part of her majesty's dominions where he had his domicile of origin.
Page 72 - All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used, and approved in the Province, Colony, or State of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law...