 The seat of judicial authority is, indeed, locally here, in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine this question exactly...  Cobbett's Weekly Political Register - Page 5151807Full view - About this book
 | Johan Friderich Wilhelm Schlegel - Naval convoys - 1801 - 194 pages
...locally here, in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations: but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person...Stockholm ; - to assert no pretensions on the part ot Great Britain, which he would not allow to Sweden in the same circumstances, and to impose no duties... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1807 - 544 pages
...belligerent country, according to the " known law and practice 'of nations. " But the law itself lias no locality. It " is the duty of the person who sits here, fftO determine this question exactly as " he would -determine the same question " if sitting at Stockholm... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Great Britain - 1808 - 104 pages
...the belligerent country, ac~ " cording to the known law and practice of all " nations; but the LAW ITSELF has no locality^ " it is the duty of the person...determine the same question if sitting at " Stockholm" Now is it possible that any Judge, but, above all, such a Judge as Sir W. Scott, could hold this language,... | |
 | 1811 - 546 pages
...here in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the la1® itself HAS no locality. It is the duty of the person...sitting at Stockholm ; — to assert no pretensions on tlvc part of Great Britain which he would not allow to Sweden In the same circumstances ; — and to... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...but according to a law which ' has no locality, ' and by one whose ' duty it is to deter' mine the question exactly as he would determine the same question^ * if sitting at Stockholm, ' — ' asserting no pretensions, on the part *• of Great Britain, •which he would not alloio to... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 556 pages
...the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the law it?elfH\B no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits...question if sitting at Stockholm ;. — to assert no pretentiona on the part of Great Britain which he would not allow to Sweden in the same circumstances... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 728 pages
...belli-- ' gèrent country, according to the known ' law and practice of all nations ; but the ' law itself has no locality, it is the duty of ' the person...sits here to determine this ' question exactly as they would determine ' the same question if sitting at Stockholm/ Now, is it possible that any judge,... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - Law - 1813 - 658 pages
...locally here, in the belligerent country according to the knows law and practice of nations ; but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sit> here, to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Henry Maddock, Thomas Charles Geldart - Equity - 1817 - 686 pages
...the belligerent country, " according to the known hwr " and practice of all nations ; " but the law itself has no " locality; it is the duty of " the..." to determine this question " exactly as he would de" termine the same question " as if sitting at Stockholm." [Maria, Gapt. Paulsea, 1 Rob. Rep. 349.]... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 830 pages
...locally here in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine the question exactly as he would determine it if sitting at Stockholm ; to assert no pretension on... | |
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