 | United States. Supreme Court - 1816 - 512 σελίδες
...governed by .the _arne rule. Respecting the power of government no doubt is entertained. That war gives t> the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations ol'tliis rigid rule, which the humane and 'wise policy of modern times... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 σελίδες
...appeal, before the Supreme Court of the United States, the broad principle was assumed, that war gave to the sovereign, full right to take the persons, and...confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found ; and that the mitigations of this rigid rule, which the wise and humane policy of modern times had... | |
 | William Oke Manning - 1839 - 430 σελίδες
...appeal, before the supreme court of the United States, the broad principle was assumed, that war gave to the sovereign full right to take the persons, and...confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found ; and that the mitigations of this rigid rule, which the wise and humane policy of modern times had... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1839 - 472 σελίδες
...or more tons burthen, within their respective districts, or on the high seas. War gives a nation the right to take the persons, and confiscate the property of the enemy, wheresoever they may be found. § 395. Congress shall have power, " To raise and support " armies ;... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 σελίδες
...friends. 1 Kent, Com. 57. In the United States, the broad principle has been assumed " that war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the policy of modern times has introduced into practice,... | |
 | Richard Wildman - 1849 - 662 σελίδες
...appeal before the supreme Court of the United States, the broad principle was assumed, that war gave the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found; and that the mitigations of this rigid rule, which the wise and humane policy of modern times has introduced... | |
 | Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1852 - 436 σελίδες
...asserts that modern usage constitutes a rule acting directly on the thing, by its own force, not tlirough the sovereign power ; his position was, that when...impaired, though mitigated in practice by wise and "lumane modern policy. Where the sovereign authority brings it into operation, the judicial department... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1855 - 702 σελίδες
...governed by the same role. Respecting the power of government no doubt is entertained. That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations * of this rigid rule, which the humane and [ * 123 ] wise policy of modern... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 666 σελίδες
...decision, declared that no *doubt -I can now be enteftained respecting the right of every Government to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found ; that the mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1858 - 460 σελίδες
...rigid rule. § 8. By decisions of our national courts, war gives the sovereign power of the nation full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever they may be found. But while these decisions claimed for congress the right of confiscation, the confiscation... | |
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That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy wherever found, is conceded. The mitigations of this rigid rule, which the humane and wise policy of modern times has introduced into practice, will... 
