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· 3/17/1810

Hudson and Smith v. Guestier

Citations

  • 10 U.S. 281
  • 3 L. Ed. 224
  • 6 Cranch 281
  • 1810 U.S. LEXIS 343

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that a seizure of property on the high seas, beyond the territorial limits of all nations, for breach of a municipal revenue raising regulation is warranted by the jus gentium
  • recognizing that a seizure of property on the high seas, beyond the territorial limits of all nations, for breach of a municipal revenue raising regulation is warranted by the jus gentium
  • recognizing that a seizure of property on the high seas, beyond the territorial limits of all nations, for breach of a municipal revenue rais- ing regulation is warranted by the jus gentium
  • “It is repugnant to every idea of a proceeding in rem, to act against a thing which is not in the power of the sovereign 20 January Term, 2020 under whose authority the court proceeds”

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Judges: Livingston, Marshall

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