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A Legal View of the Seizure of Messrs Mason and Slidell - Page 10
1861 - 27 pages
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined Before the Most Noble and ..., Volume 1

Great Britain. High Court of Appeals for Prizes, Thomas Harman Acton - Admiralty - 1853 - 408 pages
...determine ; I am not aware of any case in which that question has been agitated ; but it appears to me a principle to be but reasonable, that whenever it is...intimately connected with the hostile operations." However unfavorable this passing opinion appears to be, the circumstances of this case render it inapplicable...
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English Admiralty Reports: 1809-1811, Acton

Admiralty - 1853 - 720 pages
...determine ; I am not aware of any case in which that question has been agitated ; but it appears to me a principle to be but reasonable, that whenever it is...intimately connected with the hostile operations." However unfavorable this passing opinion appears to be, the circumstances of this case render it inapplicable...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of ..., Volumes 5-6

Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, William Robinson, Christopher Robinson - Admiralty - 1853 - 684 pages
...to be but reasonable that, whenever it is of suffiThe Orozembo. 6 C. Rob. cient importance to that enemy that such persons should be sent out on the...intimately connected with the hostile operations. It has been argued that the master was ignorant of the character of the service on which he was engaged,...
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The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 5

William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1884 - 652 pages
...to be but reasonable that when it is of sufficient importance to the enemy that such persons shall be sent out on the public service at the public expense,...intimately connected with the hostile operations." I trust that I have shown that the four persons who were taken from the Trent by Captain Wilkes, and...
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The Laws of War, Affecting Commerce and Shipping

H. Byerley Thomson - Commerce - 1854 - 156 pages
...sufficient importance to the enemy that such persons should be sent out on the public service, and at the public expense, it should afford equal ground...let out for a purpose so intimately connected with hostile operations.f The fact of the vessel having been pressed into the enemy's service does not exempt...
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Papers on Slavery, Rebellion, Etc

Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...•"/</'('/ to them alone, I do not feel it necessary to determine. I am not aware of any case in which the question has been agitated ; but it appears to me,...intimately connected with the hostile operations. " It has been argued, that the master was ignorant of the character of the service on which he was...
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern ..., Volume 2

Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 586 pages
...arrested and detained as contrahand, says : ' It appears to me on principle to be but reasonable that when it is of sufficient importance to the enemy that such...forfeiture against the vessel that may be let out for a parpose so intimately counected with the hostile operations.' " I trust that I have shown that the...
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Correspondence

United States. Department of State - Great Britain - 1861 - 15 pages
...to be but reasonable that when it is of sufficient importance to the enemy that such persons shall be sent out on the public service at the public expense,...intimately connected with the hostile operations." I trust that I have shown that the four persons who were taken from the Trent by Captain Wilkes, and...
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Correspondence Relative to the Case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, Volume 1

United States. Department of State - Trent Affair, 1861 - 1861 - 20 pages
...to be but reasonable that when it is of sufficient importance to the enemy that such persons shall be sent out on the public service at the public expense,...intimately connected with the hostile operations." I trust that I have shown that the four persons who were taken from the Trent by Captain Wilkes, and...
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The Seizure of the Southern Commissioners, Considered with Reference to ...

Philip Anstie Smith - Civil rights - 1862 - 56 pages
...besides, two other persons who were going to be employed in civil capacities in the government of Batavia. Whether the principle would apply to them alone, I...intimately connected with the hostile operations."* It will be seen that these civil servants were to be engaged in the government of a colony of the enemy,...
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