...Trinidad and St. Ander," laid it down as indisputable that " there is nothing in our laws, or in the laws of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending...war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial venture, which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to...

...meets it on the high seas or within his enemy's waters. " There is nothing," says Mr. Justice Story, " in the law of " nations that forbids our citizens..." adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit." If the neutral may sell his vessel when built, he may build it to order ; and it must be permissible,...

...prize, and for being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our...prohibit ; and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation, Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial...

...applied it specifically to the sale of armed vessels. ' There is nothing,' says that high court, ' in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our...nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the person engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.' — (Wheaton's Reports, p. 348.) Ships of war...

...prize, and for being engaged in a traffick prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our...prohibit; and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial...

...1854] iii, 558), it was ruled by Mr Justice Story in 1822. ' There IB,' said the latter, ' nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending . . . munitions of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound...

...unlawful for a neutral to be engaged in a contraband trade. It is a commercial adventure which no neutral nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. But, on the other hand, all articles contraband of war are subject...

...us " ' (Storey) ; and 'there is nothing in our own laws or in the law of nations that forbids their citizens from sending armed vessels as well as munitions of war to foreign ports for sale ' (8ггpreme Court of the United States) — cannot, without a complete perversion of their meaning,...

...Contreband« falle. So sagte der Justice Story im Fall der Sautissima Trinidad 1*22 : There is nothing in our laws or in the law of nations , that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitious of war to foreign ports for sale. It is a commereial adventure which uo nation is bound to...

...prize, and for being engaged in a traffic prohibited by the law of nations. But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our...prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation. Supposing, therefore, the voyage to have been for commercial...