Church v. Hubbart

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• some limited right to search foreign vessels may be exercised up to four leagues from coast.
• “[A nation’s] power to secure itself from injury may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory.”
• “[a nation’s] power to secure itself from injury may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory.”
• \[A <br>nation's] power to secure itself from injury may certainly be <br>exercised beyond the limits of its territory.\
• in drafting insurance contract, parties must have known that a nation’s “power to secure itself from injury [from illegal trade with its colonies] may certainly be exercised beyond the limits of its territory”
• “The authority of a nation within its own territory is absolute and exclusive. The seizure of a vessel within the range of its cannon by a foreign force is an invasion of that territory, and is a hostile act which it is its duty to repel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).