 | Henry Wheaton - International law - 1866 - 804 pages
...which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place, the question stands on different grounds, and is open...the application of very different principles. The slave-trade has since been totally abolished by this country, and our legislature has pronounced it... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...which this Court could not take any cognizance. " But by the alteration which has since taken place the " question stands on different grounds, and is...legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the prin" ciples of justice and humanity. Whatever we might " think, as individuals, before, we could not,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1873 - 464 pages
...of which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place the question stands on different grounds, and is open...principles. The Slave Trade has since been totally abolished in this country, and our legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the principles of justice... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1873 - 462 pages
...of which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place the question stands on different grounds, and is open...principles. The Slave Trade has since been totally abolished in this country, and our legislature has pronounced it to be contrary to the principles of justice... | |
 | Henry Wheaton, Coleman Phillipson - International law - 1916 - 1030 pages
...which this Court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place, the question stands on different grounds, and is open...the application of very different principles. The slave-trade has since been totally abolished by this country, and our legislature has pronounced it... | |
 | Alpheus Henry Snow - Indigenous peoples - 1919 - 240 pages
...which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place, the question stands on different grounds, and is open...country, and our legislature has pronounced it to bo contrary to the principles of justice and humanity. Whatever we might think as individuals before,... | |
 | 1812 - 548 pages
...which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since taken place, the question stands on different grounds, and is open...the application of very different principles. The slave-trade has since been totally abolished by this country, and Our legislature has pronounced it... | |
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It appeared to us, therefore, difficult to consider the prohibitory law of America in any other light than as one of those municipal regulations of a foreign state of which this court could not take any cognizance. But by the alteration which has since... 
