A Selection of Cases on the Conflict of Laws, 1. köideHarvard Law review publishing association, 1900 |
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... committed on the high seas and other places within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England . " The facts were admittedly such as to warrant the conviction , if there was jurisdiction to try the defendant as amenable to English law ...
... committed on the high seas and other places within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England . " The facts were admittedly such as to warrant the conviction , if there was jurisdiction to try the defendant as amenable to English law ...
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... committed , was in English waters , and those on board were therefore subject to English law . 2ndly . That , although the negligence of which the accused was guilty occurred on board a foreign vessel , the death occasioned by such ...
... committed , was in English waters , and those on board were therefore subject to English law . 2ndly . That , although the negligence of which the accused was guilty occurred on board a foreign vessel , the death occasioned by such ...
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... committed against it . But they are liable to that law alone . On board a foreign ship on the high seas , the foreigner is liable to the law of the foreign ship only . It is only when a foreign ship comes into the ports or waters of ...
... committed against it . But they are liable to that law alone . On board a foreign ship on the high seas , the foreigner is liable to the law of the foreign ship only . It is only when a foreign ship comes into the ports or waters of ...
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... committed on board . Now , when it is remembered that it is mainly on the statements and authority of these writers , and to opinions founded upon them , that we are called upon to hold that foreigners on the so - called territorial sea ...
... committed on board . Now , when it is remembered that it is mainly on the statements and authority of these writers , and to opinions founded upon them , that we are called upon to hold that foreigners on the so - called territorial sea ...
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... committed on the high seas . To sup port this averment the place in question must still remain part of the high sea . But if it is to be held to be the high sea , and so within the jurisdiction of the admiral , the prosecution fails ...
... committed on the high seas . To sup port this averment the place in question must still remain part of the high sea . But if it is to be held to be the high sea , and so within the jurisdiction of the admiral , the prosecution fails ...
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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...