Prize Cases Decided In The United States Supreme Court 1789 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from Prize Cases Decided in the United States Supreme Court, 1789-1918, Vol. 1: Including Also Cases on the Instance Side in Which Questions of Prize Law Were Involved During its existence of upwards of a century the Supreme Court of the United States has had occasion to consider and has decided many questions of Prize Law. The decisions of these questions, to be found here and there in the some 250 volumes of the Reported Cases of the Supreme Court, form but a small part of the labours of this august tribunal, but they have had great influence in shaping International Law and in bringing it to its present stage of develop ment. Not a few of its decisions in matters of Prize have met with violent opposition at the time of their delivery, but they have stood the test of subsequent experience, and in the end they have had the good fortune to secure the approval not only of the naval profession but of intelligent jurists throughout the world. Their collection and publication apart from the reports in which they are scattered would therefore seem not to require justification at this or at any other time. There are, however, at the present moment two reasons which serve to make their appearance peculiarly timely. The first reason consists in the likelihood of the constitution at no distant date of an International Court of Justice which may be called upon to decide questions of Prize Law, and which would be greatly aided in its labours by the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, which may be properly considered as the only permanent Court of Prize in existence as it assuredly is the only court of a permanent nature hitherto created for a Union of States by the States forming that Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.