 The law of nations, founded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage, does not allow of reprisals, except in case of violent injuries, directed or supported by the state, and justice absolutely denied,...  Admiralty Decisions in the District Court of the United States, for the ... - Page 11by Richard Peters, Francis Hopkinson - 1807 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1884 - 864 pages
...province of Silesia. The law of nations is therein declared to be " founded upon justice, equity, and convenience, and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage." This statement of the principles which ought to regulate the mutual intercourse oí nations finds many... | |
 | Franz von Holtzendorff - International law - 1885 - 546 pages
...alâ Quelle ju bejeic^nen fein roütbe. !>) 6. 3t. $l)iffiinoi-c aa £). § 20: The Law of Nations is founded upon justice, equity, convenience and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage. — 3m Uebtigen ftebt ©. ;H. ^fjidtnwrc nod) heute auf bet ©tunblage bet Don (4 tottue gegebenen... | |
 | James Coolidge Carter - Bering Sea controversy - 1893 - 398 pages
...statement. I am reading now from the 12th page of my argument : " The law of nations is said to be founded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the reason of the thing and confirmed by long usage. " And Chancellor Kent has spoken to the same point with great clearness (Comm., part. I, led. 1. p.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1894 - 508 pages
...Prussian Majesty, he ought to apply for redress to the King of Prussia's courts of justice. If the matter of complaint be a capture at sea during war, and the...reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage, does not allow of reprisals, except in case of violent injuries directed or supported by the state,... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 360 pages
...Mansfield and Sir George Lee, of the British, to the Prussian Government: "The law of nations is said to be founded upon .justice, equity, convenience, and the...reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage." Chancellor Kent says on the same subject. (The quotation is from the first volume of Kent's Commentaries... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 442 pages
...statement. I am reading now from the 12th page of my argument: The law of nations is said to be fonnded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the reason of the thing and confirmed by long usage. And Chancellor Kent has spoken to the same point with great clearness (Comm., part I, lect. 1, p. 2-4)... | |
 | Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 562 pages
...international law ever embodied in a state paper. In this memorable document the law of nations is said to be founded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the reason of the thing, and confinued by long usage." 1 Phillimore, ch. 3, sec. 20. In the judgment delivered by him in Queen vs.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...Murray, afterward Lord Mansfield, and much praised by Montesquieu and by VatteL4 Here it is said : " The Law of Nations, founded upon justice, equity,...and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long l Bynkershoek, Qurest. Jur. Pub., tr. Du Ponceau, Lib. I. Cap. 24, p. 186. » Ibid. « Halleek, International... | |
 | Comparative law - 1901 - 344 pages
...part) wrote in their celebrated opinion in the case of the Silesian Loan that theylaw of nations is " founded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the...reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage." * In the very infancy of the doctrine Alberico Gentili, while he declared that the ius gentium applicable... | |
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