Neither party could so understand the cession. Neither party could consider itself as attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another, conveying... American Law and Procedure - Page 13edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| Joseph M. White - Colonies - 1839 - 764 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name, from one sovereign to another,...only, and not to interfere with private property. If this could be doubted, the doubt would be removed by the particular enumeration which follows :... | |
| George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another,...only, and not to interfere with private property. If this could be doubted, the doubt would be removed by the particular enumeration which follows. '... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 536 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another,...only, and not to interfere with private property. If this could be doubted, the doubt would be removed by the particular enumeration which follows. "... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 744 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name, from one sovereign to another, conveying the compound idea of surrendering, nt the same time, the lands and the people who inhabit them, would be necessarily understood to pass... | |
| New Almaden quicksilver mines, Calif - 1860 - 1122 pages
...those who became subjects or citizens of the new Government, would have been unaffected by the change. "The cession of territory, by its name, from one Sovereign...be necessarily understood to pass the sovereignty alone, and not to interfere with private property." 11* 81 His conclusion was, thai if, in the Florida... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 652 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another,...only, and not to interfere with private property. If this could be doubted, the doubt would be removed by the particular enumeration which follows :... | |
| Ontario. Commissioner on the Northern and Western Boundaries, David Mills - Canada - 1877 - 718 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals condemned by the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory would be necessarily understood" to pass the sovereignty...only, and not to interfere with private property. (Ib. 87.) No construction of a treaty which would impair that security to private property which the... | |
| Ontario - Canada - 1878 - 506 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals condemned by the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory would be necessarily understood to pass the sovereignty...only, and not to interfere with private property. (Ib. 87.) No construction of a treaty which would impair that security to private property which the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 902 pages
...attempting a wrong t6 individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another,...only, and not to interfere with private property." And again in Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet. 435, which was an action of ejectment for certain real estate... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 810 pages
...attempting a wrong to individuals, condemned by the practice of the whole civilized world. The cession of a territory by its name from one sovereign to another, conveying the compound idea cf surrendering at the same time the lands and the people who inhabit them, would be necessarily understood... | |
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