A Selection of Cases on the Conflict of Laws, 1. köideHarvard Law review publishing association, 1900 |
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... territory , the offence having been consummated by the death of the deceased in a British ship , must be considered as having been committed on British territory . I reserve for future consideration the arguments thus advanced on the ...
... territory , the offence having been consummated by the death of the deceased in a British ship , must be considered as having been committed on British territory . I reserve for future consideration the arguments thus advanced on the ...
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... territory . All on board , therefore , whether subjects or foreigners , are bound to obey the law of the coun- try to which the ship belongs , as though they were actually on its ter- ritory on land , and are liable to the penalties of ...
... territory . All on board , therefore , whether subjects or foreigners , are bound to obey the law of the coun- try to which the ship belongs , as though they were actually on its ter- ritory on land , and are liable to the penalties of ...
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... territory of the realm , so as to make a foreigner in a foreign ship , within such belt , though on a voyage to a foreign port , subject to our law , which it is clear he would not be on the high sea beyond such limit . It is necessary ...
... territory of the realm , so as to make a foreigner in a foreign ship , within such belt , though on a voyage to a foreign port , subject to our law , which it is clear he would not be on the high sea beyond such limit . It is necessary ...
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... territory , and for the regulation of the navigation , and the use of harbors and roadsteads , and the maintenance of order among the shipping therein , rather than the general application of the criminal law . Other authors - for ...
... territory , and for the regulation of the navigation , and the use of harbors and roadsteads , and the maintenance of order among the shipping therein , rather than the general application of the criminal law . Other authors - for ...
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Joseph Henry Beale. territory as to be subject , without legislation , to the whole body of our existing law , civil ... territory or realm of the country owning the coast , as though it were so much land ; so that the right of passage ...
Joseph Henry Beale. territory as to be subject , without legislation , to the whole body of our existing law , civil ... territory or realm of the country owning the coast , as though it were so much land ; so that the right of passage ...
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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...