Commission Under the Convention Between the United States & Paraguay: Statements and Arguments for Claimants and for the Republic, and Opinion and Award of CommissionersH. Polkinhorn, Printer, 1860 - 163 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 32 - But we think the real answer to the objection is, that no wrongdoer can be allowed to apportion or qualify his own wrong ; and that as a loss has actually happened whilst his wrongful act was in operation and force, and which is attributable to his wrongful act, he cannot set up as an answer to the action the bare possibility of a loss, if his wrongful act had never been done.
Σελίδα 111 - I The Government of the Republic of Paraguay binds itself for the responsibility in favor of the "United States and Paraguay Navigation Company," which may result from the decree of commissioners, who, it is agreed, shall be appointed as follows.
Σελίδα 101 - The probable or possible benefits of a voyage, as yet in fieri, can never afford a safe rule by which to estimate damages in cases of marine trespass. There is so much uncertainty in the rule itself, so many contingencies which may vary or extinguish its application, and so many difficulties in sustaining its legal correctness, that the court can not believe it proper to entertain it.
Σελίδα 37 - States believe it to be their duty, and they mean to execute it, to watch over the persons and property of their citizens visiting foreign countries, and to intervene for their protection when such action is justified by existing circumstances and by the law of nations. Wherever their citizens may go through the habitable globe, when they encounter injustice they may appeal to the government of their country, and the appeal will be examined into with a view to such action in their behalf as it may...