 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 962 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ... if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change... | |
 | Robert Thomas Devlin - Constitutional law - 1908 - 946 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their... | |
 | Puerto Rico - Law - 1909 - 862 pages
...for the conqueror to do more than to displace1 the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...generally confiscated and private rights annulled, on a change of the sovereignty of the country, by the Florida treaty. The people change their allegiance;... | |
 | Alma Latifi, John Westlake - Capture at sea - 1909 - 178 pages
...conquest for the conqueror to do more than displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country.. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowleged and felt by the whole world would be outraged, if private property should be generally... | |
 | George Grafton Wilson - History - 1910 - 698 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...rights annulled. The people change their allegiance ; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved ; but their relations to each other, and their... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1090 pages
...conquest for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations which has become law would...generally confiscated and private rights annulled." [They also referred to Mitchel v. United States (1835) 9 Pet. 711, 9 L. ed. 283; Smith v. United States... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1927 - 820 pages
...conquest, for the conqueror to do more than displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law,...private property should be generally confiscated. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Enemy property - 1927 - 404 pages
...in waging war the United States has, as one of its war powers, the right to confiscate, still — " The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that the sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committe on finance - 1927 - 438 pages
...in waging war the United States has, as one of its war powers, the right to confiscate, still — " The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that the sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would... | |
 | United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on finance - 1928 - 274 pages
...confiscate, still — "The modern usage of nations, which has become a law, would be violated; that the sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged...generally confiscated and private rights annulled." The United States never has, even in war, in a hundred and fifty years confiscated alien private property.... | |
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It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated... 
