 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1126 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other." The battles of Palo Alto and Eesaca de la Palma had been fought before the passage of the act of Congress... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1132 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other.' " Grler, J. : The Prize Cases (1862), 2 Black, 668. IV. COMMENCEMENT OF WAR. 1. DECLARATION. § 1106.... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 1132 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other.' " Grier, J. : The Prize Cases (1862), 2 Black, 668. IV. I'OM11ENCEMENT OF WAR. 1. DECLARATION. §1106.... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1122 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other.' '* Grler, J. : The Prize Cases (18(52), 2 Black, (5(58. IV. COMMKXCKMEXT OF WAR. 1. DECLARATION. §... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 386 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other." "The battles of Palo Alto and Resaco de la Palma had been fought before the passage of the Act of Congress... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 396 pages
...laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other." "The battles of Palo Alto and Resaco de la Pahna had been fought before the passage of the Act of Congress... | |
 | James Molony Spaight - War (International law) - 1911 - 540 pages
...laid it down that war might exist without a declaration on either side. " A declaration of war was not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused at pleasure by the other. It proved the existence of actual hostilities on one side at least, and put the other party also into... | |
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It is not the less a war on that account, for war may exist without a declaration on either side. It is so laid down by the best writers on the law of nations. A declaration of war by one country only, is not a mere challenge to be accepted or refused... 
