 | Sir William Vernon Harcourt - Great Britain - 1863 - 252 pages
...deserving of notice. It is there said that too wide an extension has been given to the proposition that ' the law of nations is part of the law of the land.' In a certain and limited sense, this maxim is unquestionably true. Where the Law of Nations... | |
 | William De Burgh (B.A.) - Maritime law - 1868 - 288 pages
...illegal by your own law which was not so before.' This doctrine is not inconsistent with the maxim that the law of nations is part of the law of the land. The fact is, that the law of nations has never declared that a neutral State is bound to impede... | |
 | Eugene Leggett - Charter-parties - 1894 - 778 pages
...8 L. K, 1 A. & E. 1. law which was not so before." This doctrine is not inconsistent with the maxim that the law of nations is part of the law of the land. The fact is, the law of nations lias1 never declared that a neutral State is hound to impede... | |
 | Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - Commercial law - 1907 - 690 pages
...that illegal by your own law which was not so before. This doctrine is not inconsistent with the maxim that the Law of Nations is part of the law of the land. The fact is, the Law of Nations has never declared that a neutral State is bound to impede or... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1915 - 932 pages
...that there is a want of precedent for this prosecution. The first answer is, that it is demonstrated that the law of nations is part of the law of the land. The second answer is, that in numerous other instances, enumerated by Blackstone, the law of... | |
 | Harold Hudson Martin, Joseph Richardson Baker - Belligerency - 1918 - 610 pages
...illegal by your own law which was not so before.' This doctrine is not inconsistent with the maxim that the law of nations is part of the law of the land. The fact is. the law of nations has never declared that a neutral state is bound to impede or... | |
 | Marjorie Millace Whiteman - International law - 1963 - 1022 pages
...valid in England the common law doctrine, to which Blackstone gave expression in a striking passage, that the Law of Nations is part of the law of the land. It has been repeatedly acted upon by courts. Apart from isolated obiter dicta it has never been... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht - Law - 1968 - 560 pages
...valid in England the common law doctrine, to which Blackstone gave expression in a striking passage, that the Law of Nations is part of the law of the land." On the other hand, however (p. 41): " (c) English statutory law is absolutely binding upon English... | |
 | Hersch Lauterpacht - International law - 1970 - 624 pages
...henceforth expressly declare to be incorporated into the law of the land in pursuance of the general rule that the law of nations is part of the law of the land. Thus in Chung Chi Cheung v. The King the learned Lord declined to base his judgment exclusively... | |
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Law as are either universally recognised or have at any rate received the assent of this country are per se part of the law of the land. 
