"Maritime law" Quotes from Famous Books
... the chief stipulations of the Treaty, see ante, Introductory Note to Chapter XXV. In addition to the actual Treaty, an important declaration was made as to the rules of international maritime law, to be binding only on the signatory powers, dealing ... — The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... and far distant lands, And African Deserts, and hot burning sands. Old warrior Flamingo came limping along, And with Commodore Cormorant join'd in the throng, Profoundly debating, with Major Macaw, The merits of martial and maritime law. Earl Heron walk'd stately with Caroline Crane, And Field-marshal Falcon, of valour so vain; While Captain Crown Pigeon, so odd in his tread, Shook the quaking-grass tuft on his fanciful head. Lord Peacock, from Asia, came dress'd very fine— His musical taste ne'er accorded ... — The Peacock 'At Home' AND The Butterfly's Ball AND The Fancy Fair • Catherine Ann Dorset
... made to eat for five-and-twenty years. There is also current a vague notion, which sometimes takes the shape of an assertion, that we were the first nation who refused to pay tribute to the Moorish pirates, and thus, established a now principle in the maritime law of the Mediterranean. This, also, is a patriotic delusion. The money question between the President and the Pacha was simply one of amount. Our chief was willing to pay anything in reason; but Tripolitan prices were too high, and could ... — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various
... demands that of open trade with the colonies of belligerents does not appear, although there is found one closely cognate to it,—an asserted right to coasting trade, from port to port, of a country at war. The Rule of 1756 therefore remained, in 1793, a definition of international maritime law laid down by British courts, but not elsewhere accepted; and it rested upon a logical deduction from a system of colonial administration universal at that period. The logical deduction may be stated thus. The mother country, for its own benefit, reserves to itself both the ... — Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan |