 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...States upon this matter in the following language : — " Considering the great extent of the line of the American " coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive (7) Vattd, Le Droit, etc. ti 1. ic xxiii. s. 291. (TO) Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, vol. ii. pp. 727,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1872 - 504 pages
...over a very wide extent of the adjacent ocean. " Considering," says he, " the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive I'ogulations, a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be unreasonable, as I... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - International law - 1876 - 734 pages
...subject is to extend the privilege to much ampler bays. Chancellor Kent tells us that the United States " have a right to claim for fiscal and defensive regulations...for domestic purposes connected with our safety and our welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Exchequer Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 524 pages
...an extent into the sea beyond the reach of cannon-shot. " Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 896 pages
...an extent into the sea beyond the reach of cannon shot. " Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...jurisdiction, and it would not be unreasonable, as I ap(3) Extract from Kent' t Comm., Vol. 1, pp. 28, 29 (ed. 1844). prehend, to assume for domestic purposes... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 918 pages
...an extent into the sea beyond the reach of cannon-shot. "Considering the great extent of the line oE the American coasts, we have a right to claim, for...safety and welfare, the control of the waters on our coasts, though included within lines stretching from quite distant headlands, as, for instance, from... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1879 - 864 pages
...States upon this matter in the following language : — " Considering the great extent of the line of the American " coasts, we have a right to claim,...and it would not be unreasonable, as I apprehend, to as" sume, for domestic purposes connected with our safety and " welfare, the control of the waters... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - International law - 1879 - 588 pages
...over a very wide extent of the adjacent ocean. " Considering," says he, " the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...extension of maritime jurisdiction ; and it would not be uureasonable, as I apprehend, to assume for domestic purposes connected with our safety and welfare... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - International law - 1879 - 554 pages
...over a very wide extent of the adjacent ocean. " Considering," says he, " the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim,...and defensive regulations, a liberal extension of rnari&me jurisdiction ; and it would not be unreasonable, as I apprehend, to assume for domestic purposes... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 2192 pages
...on the same subject this learned author says: "Considering the great extent of the American ccast, we have a right to claim for fiscal and defensive...regulations a liberal extension of maritime jurisdiction. It would not be unreasonable, as 1 apprehend, to assume, for domestic purposes connected with our safety... | |
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States in attaching to their coasts an extent into the sea, beyond the reach of cannon shot.* *30 *Considering the great extent of the line of the American coasts, we have a right to claim, for fiscal and defensive regulations, a liberal extension of... 
