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... foreign laws under what is call- ed comity , 86. Laws of different origin but similar in effect , 87. Laws of different origin and dissimilar in effect , 66 68 69 '70 • 71 73 . 74 75 · 76 2880 79 79 80 88. The effect of foreign laws ...
... foreign laws under what is call- ed comity , 86. Laws of different origin but similar in effect , 87. Laws of different origin and dissimilar in effect , 66 68 69 '70 • 71 73 . 74 75 · 76 2880 79 79 80 88. The effect of foreign laws ...
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... foreign precedents , 333 Of law on this subject as derived from foreign precedents . 258. Reasons for recognizing a customary international private law , in- dependent of what is called comity , 259. Authorities on the law of the ...
... foreign precedents , 333 Of law on this subject as derived from foreign precedents . 258. Reasons for recognizing a customary international private law , in- dependent of what is called comity , 259. Authorities on the law of the ...
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... foreign nations , · • 277. Slavery recognized under the rule only when maintained by uni- versal jurisprudence , PAGE 349 349 350 351 352 353 • 353 CHAPTER IX . OF THE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD AFFECT- ING ...
... foreign nations , · • 277. Slavery recognized under the rule only when maintained by uni- versal jurisprudence , PAGE 349 349 350 351 352 353 • 353 CHAPTER IX . OF THE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD AFFECT- ING ...
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... foreign and domestic aliens distinguished , · of international law as a part of the internal laws of the United States . 385. National municipal law of the United States includes international law , 386. This international law is ...
... foreign and domestic aliens distinguished , · of international law as a part of the internal laws of the United States . 385. National municipal law of the United States includes international law , 386. This international law is ...
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... foreign This testing the legality or lawfulness of a custom is a judicial act , and to be dis- tinguished from autonomic recognition or disallowance of customs by the sovereign . Co. Lit. , fo . 141 , a .: " Malus usus abolendus , and ...
... foreign This testing the legality or lawfulness of a custom is a judicial act , and to be dis- tinguished from autonomic recognition or disallowance of customs by the sovereign . Co. Lit. , fo . 141 , a .: " Malus usus abolendus , and ...
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Page 370 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 430 - The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and if they were used in a similar instrument at this day would be so understood. But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this Declaration...
Page 115 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical or temporal, civil, military, maritime or criminal; this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must in all governments reside somewhere is intrusted by the Constitution of these kingdoms.
Page 477 - ... there is a difference between property in a slave and other property, and that different rules may be applied to it in expounding the Constitution of the United States. And the laws and usages of nations, and the writings of eminent jurists upon the relation of master and slave and their mutual rights and duties, and the powers which Governments may exercise ove'r it, have been dwelt upon in the argument. But in considering the question before us, it must be borne in mind that there is no law...
Page 470 - The purposes for which men enter into society will determine the nature and terms of the social compact; and as they are the foundation of the legislative power, they will decide what are the proper objects of it. The nature, and ends of legislative power will limit the exercise of it.
Page 116 - law itself, (says he,) [*91] you at the same time repeal the prohibitory clause, which guards against such repeal ( />)." 10. Lastly, acts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity : and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void (32).
Page 254 - That the laws made by them for the purposes aforesaid shall not be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and shall be transmitted to the King in Council for approbation, as soon as may be after their passing; and if not disapproved within three years after presentation, to remain in force...
Page 496 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Page 466 - And to be commanded we do consent, when that society whereof we are part hath at any time before consented, without revoking the same after by the like universal agreement. Wherefore as any man's deed past is good as long as himself continueth ; so the act of a -public society of men done five hundred years sithence standeth as theirs who presently are of the same societies, because corporations are immortal ; we were then alive in our predecessors* and they in their successors do live still.
Page 244 - It is also agreed that the commissioners for this confederation hereafter at their meetings, whether ordinary or extraordinary, as they may have commission or opportunity, do endeavor to frame and establish agreements and orders in general cases of a civil nature...