 | Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1793 - 532 pages
...proper. He may (faid the noble judge) yield up the conqueft, or retain it, on what terms hepleafes, and change part, or the whole, of the law, or political form of its government, as he fees bejt." In reply to an obfervation, that no adjudged cafe, in point, had... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...conquest, or retain it, upon what terms he pleases. These powers, says Lord Mansfield, no man ever disputed; neither has it hitherto been controverted, that the king might change part 2 Peere Wms. 75. Show. Parl. 14 G. 3. c. 83. and 88. or the whole of the law or political form of government... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 640 pages
...has a power to alter the old, and to introduce • Cowpcr's Reports, i!04. f Dodsons's Adm. Rep, 460. laws in a conquered country, this legislation being...established in the Deccan by the Marquis of Hastings, «.i- not a legal government, because it has not been shown in evidence to have been specifically sanctioned... | |
 | 1837 - 682 pages
...he pleases. These powers no man ever disputed, "(this I was reserved for a flourish of AMICU8 CUM*) neither has it hitherto been controverted that the...political form of Government of a conquered dominion." This is putting it on precisely the same grounds as the case in Peere Williams — the right to deal... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...retain it on such term« as he thinks proper. These powers no man ever disputed ; neither has it ever been controverted that the king might change part...political form of government of a conquered dominion. Iliiil. 41. 11. An acquisition by discovery, is, by the usage of all the discovering nations of Europe,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 618 pages
...peace; he may yield up the conquest or retain it on what terms he pleases. These powers no man ever disputed; neither has it hitherto been controverted...political form of government of a conquered dominion. He comes in place of the king of Spain, the former sovereign. Cowper, 204, 213, in a case arising under... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1878 - 514 pages
...powers no man ever disputed ; neither has it been hitherto controverted that the King may change part or whole of the law or political form of government of a conquered dominion." — He then draws an illustration from " the history of the conquests made by the Crown of England,"... | |
 | Law - 1889 - 922 pages
...his other subjects ; and so in many other instances which might be put. * * These powers no man ever disputed, neither has it hitherto been controverted...part or the whole of the law or political form of the government of a conquered dominion. * * It is not to be wondered at that an adjudged case in point... | |
 | Canada - 1891 - 780 pages
...he may retain the conquest, or yield it up, on such condition as he pleases. These facts no man ever disputed, neither has it hitherto been controverted...law or political form of government of a conquered nation. . . . It is not to be wondered that an adjudged case in point is not to be found ; no dispute... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...peace : he may yield up the conquest, or retain it upon what terms he pleases. These powers no man ever disputed, neither has it hitherto been controverted...political form of government of a conquered dominion. To go into the history of the conquests made by the Crown of England. The conquest and the alteration... | |
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... receives the inhabitants under his protection and grants them their property he has a power to fix such terms and conditions as he thinks proper. He is entrusted with making the treaty of peace; he may yield up the conquest or retain it upon what... 
