 | International Law Association - DVD-ROMs - 1900 - 740 pages
...Merlin described as a sort of tacit convention between all nations of Europe for their exemption. 1 Lord Stowell, in the English Court of Admiralty, in...decision." The Supreme Court of the United States, on appeal in the case to which I now allude, held that what might have been a matter of comity at the... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Aeronautics, Military - 1924 - 410 pages
...this view there was cited by counsel an opinion of Lord Stowell to the effect that the exemption was "a rule of comity only, and not of legal decision." The Supreme Court, however, declared that the period of a hundred years that had elapsed since Lord Stowell's opinion... | |
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Lord Stowell, in the English Court of Admiralty, in a case arising in 1798, regarded this as " a rule of comity only, and not of legal decision." The Supreme Court of the United States, on appeal in the case to which I now allude, held that what might... 