 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 492 pages
...to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country," and that the law of the civilised world " would be outraged, if private property should...generally confiscated, and private rights annulled on a change in the sovereignty of a country." The same doctrine is emphatically affirmed in Strother... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 510 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 would...rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relations to their sovereign are dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Refugees - 1953 - 128 pages
...displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which have become law, would be violated; that sense of justice,...confiscated and private rights annulled. The people change allegiance; their relations to their ancient soverign is dissolved; but their relations to each other,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Communism - 1953 - 630 pages
...Justice Marshall, in United State8 v. Perelleman (7 Pet. 51, 86), said that, even in cases of conquestthe modern usage of nations, which has become law, would...and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whqle civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated. It is... | |
 | United States. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission - United States - 1955 - 712 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1132 pages
...sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would re violated; that sense of justice and of right which...outraged, if private property should be generally confierai« d and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their... | |
 | Judge Advocate General's School (United States. Army) - Bill drafting - 1960 - 180 pages
...Okinawa in 1948, that article merely expresses "the modern usage of nations, which has become law * * * that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world." At least until the occupant has determined upon the ultimate disposition of the occupied territory,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Enemy property - 1961 - 292 pages
...Justice Marshall, in united States v. Percheman, 7 Pet. 51, 86, said that, even in cases of conquest "the modern usage of nations, which has become law,...private property should be generally confiscated." John Bassett Moore, in his Digest of International Law, volume 7, pages 312, 313, says that the correct... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Enemy property - 1961 - 288 pages
...Justice Marshall, in United States v. Percheman, 1 Pet. 51, 86, said that, even in cases of conquest "the modern usage of nations, which has become law,...private property should be generally confiscated." John Bassett Moore, in his Digest of International Law, volume 7, pages 312, 313, says that the correct... | |
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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... 
