 Resolved: That a ship or a vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, is, according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State to which her flag belongs ; as much so as if constituting a part of its...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 498by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1901Full view - About this book
 | The Senate of the United States.First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress. - 1840 - 1154 pages
...Enterprise under those circumstances. MARCH 4, 1840. Submitted, and ordered to be primed. Resolved, That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of...much so, as if constituting a part of its own domain. Resolved, That if such ship or vessel should be forced by stress of weather, or other unavoidable cause,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Amistad (Schooner) - 1841 - 140 pages
...application to this case, 'Lieut. Gedney had no right to seize the vessel at all. The resolution declares that-*" A ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful commerce, is, according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State to which... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1843 - 654 pages
...in the session of 1840, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : — " Resolved, — That a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of...much so as if constituting a part of its own domain. power, she and her cargo, and persons on board, with their property and all the rights belonging to... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...embraced in the first and second of these resolutions. The former affirms the acknowledged principle that a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, and engaged in a lawful voyage, is, by the law of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1843 - 642 pages
...embraced in the first and second of these resolutions. The former affirms the acknowledged principle that a ship or vessel on the high seas, in time of peace, and engaged in a lawful voyage, is, by the law of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the... | |
 | 1840 - 454 pages
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 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1851 - 340 pages
...in their judgment, this vessel and cargo, being "rescued out of the hands of pirates and robbers en the high seas," and carried into a port of the United...domain;" and that, according to the same laws, the ship's papers, exemplified in proper form according to the laws of the nation to which she belongs, are held... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 544 pages
...his speech, that a ship or a vessel on the high in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, was, according to the laws of nations, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state to which her flag belonged, — as much so as if constituting a part of its own domain ; that if such ship or vessel... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...law of mil ions, that a vessel on the hurh seas, in time of peace, engaged in a lawful voyage, was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state to which her flag belongs ; and that if forced by necessity into a port of a friendly power, she loses none of the rights appertaining... | |
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