Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the Judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter Term 1808 |
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Page 239 - ... every seaman or mariner so discharged, being designated on such list as a citizen of the United States, three months...
Page 313 - The constitution of this court, relatively to the legislative power of the king in council, is analogous to that of the courts of common law, relatively to that of the parliament of this kingdom.
Page 174 - His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, and Courts of Vice-Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein as to them shall respectively appertain. W. FAWKENER...
Page 377 - ... something which has not yet been done, and cannot be done at all without such permission. Where the act has been already done, and requires to be upheld, it must be by an express confirmation of the act itself, or by an indemnity granted to the party ; but a license necessarily looks to that which yet remains to be done, and can extend its influence only to future operations.
Page 135 - ... carried from any one port or place in the said Colonies or Plantations to any other port or place in the same...
Page 325 - And the right honourable the lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, his Majesty's principal...
Page 406 - Rujfel, upon his own knowledge and from his own belief, conveys to the Court. With refpect to what has patted fince the month of September, when Mr. Barlow fucceeded him in the miffion, he fays, " that he has been informed by the " American minifter refident at Paris, that there has " not been an inftance of the application of the Berlin " and Milan Decrees to an American...
Page 312 - A question has been stated, what would be the duty of the court under Orders in Council, that were repugnant to the Law of Nations? It has been contended on one side that the court would at all events be bound to enforce the Orders in Council, on the other that the court would be bound to apply the rule of the law of nations adapted to the particular case, in disregard of the Orders in Council.