 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast. must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold, as great an extent of the interior country...explored from its very mountain springs to the sea. Such an union of titles, imparting validity to each other, did not often exist. I remarked, that it... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 658 pages
...entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast. laa must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold, as great an extent of the interior country...of such principal river, and its tributary streams : aritl that the claim, to this extent, became doubly strong, where, as in the present instance, the... | |
 | Theodore Lyman (Jr.) - Diplomacy - 1828 - 550 pages
...coast, must, necessarily, he allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country, us was described by the course of such principal river...explored, from its very mountain springs to the sea," Then, in the third place, the United States possess the full advantage of a right, resting in actual... | |
 | Theodore Lyman (Jr.) - Diplomacy - 1828 - 542 pages
...entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast, must, necessarily, be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country,...extent became doubly strong, where, as in the present mstance, the same river had, also, been discovered and explored, from its very mountain springs to... | |
 | Richard Rush - Great Britain - 1845 - 696 pages
...by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim, and hold, as great an extent of the interior country,...explored from its very mountain springs to the sea. Such a union of titles, imparting validity to each other, did not often exist. I remarked, that it... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Great Britain - 1846 - 304 pages
...by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country as was described by the course of the principal river and its tributary streams," the United States would only be entitled to the valley... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea-coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country...the course of such principal river and its tributary streams."(i) But this proposition was strenuously denied by Great Britain upon various grounds:—1.... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 406 pages
...by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea-coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country...the course of such principal river and its tributary streams."(i) But this proposition was strenuously denied by Great Britain upon various grounds ; —... | |
 | Travers Twiss - International law - 1861 - 414 pages
...lnj entering the mouth of its principal rirer at the sea-coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the Interior country...the course of such principal river and its tributary streams25." The Plenipotentiaries of the United States in support of their position, appealed to the... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea-coast, " must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an " extent of the interior country...of such principal river and its tributary streams " (z). But this proposition was strenuously denied by Great Britain upon various grounds: — 1. That... | |
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I asserted, that a nation discovering a country by entering the mouth of its principal river at the sea coast, must necessarily be allowed to claim and hold as great an extent of the interior country as was described by the course of such principal river... 
