 | Beamish Murdoch - Law - 1833 - 254 pages
...act had said "in terms, that though a person sued in the island, had never " been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind " him upon proof...up the summons at the court door " how could that he obligatory upon the subjects of other coun" of (the whole world ? would the world submit to such... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 586 pages
...the act had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof...of the whole world ? Would the world submit to such an assumed jurisdiction ? The law itself, however, fairly construed, does not warrant such an inference... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...jurisdiction, yet, that it should bind him, upon proof of nailincr up the summons at the Court- Honse door, how could that be obligatory upon the subjects of other countries ? Cur, the island df Tobago pass a taw to bind the nghts of the whole •world? Would the world submit... | |
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 1008 pages
...Tobago " had said in terms that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof...summons at the Court door, how could that be obligatory on the subCo) See 3 H. & N. 624. (6) 9 East, 192, 194. 1800. Jects of otner countries ? Can the island... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Estoppel - 1872 - 732 pages
...the act had said in terms that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof...of the whole world ? Would the world submit to such an assumed jurisdiction ? The law itself, however, fairly construed, does not warrant such an inr ference... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Judgments - 1873 - 590 pages
...by our country were not obligatory on foreigners not subject to their jurisdiction. 'Can,' he said, 'the island of Tobago pass a law to bind the rights of the whole world?' "The question we have now to answer is, Can the empire of France pass a law to bind the whole world?... | |
 | Owen Davies Tudor - Commercial law - 1884 - 1250 pages
...Tobago) had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof...Tobago pass a law to bind the rights of the whole world ?" See also Cavan v. Stewart, 1 Stark. 525. Where, however, it was the duty of a person, as the captor... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - Colonies - 1884 - 752 pages
...question which was put so trenchantly by Lord Ellenborough, CJ, in Buchanan v. Rucher, Buchanan \. 'Can the Island of Tobago pass a law to bind the rights of g£^'ll)3. ' the whole world ? ' : ' Can one nation pass a law to bind the whole ' world ? ' 'We admit,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 916 pages
...sovereignty over independent nations and their subjects. Lord Ellenborough, in Buchanan v. Rucker, 9 East, 192, has put the case with great clearness and force....such a case vary the legal result, that the party had actual notice of the suit; for he is not bound to appear to it. No sovereign has a just right to... | |
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Supposing however that the Act had said in terms, that though a person sued in the island had never been present within the jurisdiction, yet that it should bind him upon proof of nailing up the summons at the Court door; how could that be obligatory... 
