 | Samuel Warren - 1840 - 146 pages
...the just and ra" tional application of the LAW OF NATURE to the " affairs and conduct of nations."* We have the authority of the lawyers of antiquity, and of some of the first masters of the public law, for placing the moral obligation of nations and of individuals on the same grounds.... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Powell Mason - 1846 - 612 pages
...may be unequivocally affirmed, that every doctrine, that may be fairly deduced by correct reasoning from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligation, may theoretically be said to exist in the law of nations ; and unless it be relaxed or waived by the... | |
 | Richard Wildman - 1849 - 662 pages
...it may be unequivocally affirmed, that any doctrine that may be fairly deduced by correct reasoning from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligation, may theoretically be said to exist in the law of nations, and unless it be relaxed or waived by the... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 pages
...regulations, the intercourse and conduct of nations are to be governed by principles fairly to be deduced from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature...authority of the lawyers of antiquity, and of some ef the first masters in the modern school of public law, for placing the moral obligation of nations... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1851 - 600 pages
...may be unequivocally affirmed, that every doctrine, that may be fairly deduced by correct reasoning from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligation, may theoretically be said to exist in the law of nations; and unless it be relaxed or waived by the... | |
 | George Atkinson - 1851 - 166 pages
...regulations, the intercourse and conduct of nations are to be governed by principles fairly to be deduced from the rights and duties of nations and the nature of moral obligations ; and we have the authority of the lawyers of antiquity, and of some of the first masters... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 736 pages
...regulations, the intercourse and conduct of nations are to be governed by principles fairly to be deduced from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligations. The law of nations, so far as it is founded on the principles of natural law, is equally... | |
 | William Wisner - 1853 - 258 pages
..."We have the authority of all the lawyers of antiquity, as well as of some of the first masters of the modern school of public law, for placing the moral obligation of nations and individuals upon the same ground, and for considering individual and national morality as parts of... | |
 | James Kent - 1860 - 748 pages
...regulations, the intercourse and conduct of nations are to be governed by principles fairly to be deduced from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature...antiquity, and of some of the first masters in the modern schoov* of public law, for placing the moral obligation of nations and^)|y individuals on similar grounds,... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1861 - 414 pages
...Nations and the nature of moral obligations ; and we have the authority of lawyers of antiquity, and some of the first masters in the modern school of Public Law, for placing the moral obligations of Nations and of individuals on similar grounds, and for considering individual and national... | |
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I think it may be unequivocally affirmed, that every doctrine, that may be fairly deduced by correct reasoning from the rights and duties of nations, and the nature of moral obligation, may theoretically be said to exist in the law of nations; and unless... 
