 | Elihu Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, A. G. Oppenheimer - Law - 2008 - 729 pages
...As Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4th edn 1770, vol. 1, p. 107, puts it: [142] ... it hath been held that if an uninhabited country be...all the English laws then in being, which are the birthright of every subject, are immediately there in force. So these offences, like murder, were already... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 772 pages
...hath been held, that if an Dodge and others vs. Williams and another, Executors, etc., and others. uninhabited country be discovered and planted by English...all the English laws then in being, which are the birthright of every subject, are immediately there in force. But this must be understood with very... | |
 | Elizabeth Mancke, Carole Shammas - History - 2005 - 420 pages
...of constitutional development when including the old North American colonies in the same category: If an uninhabited country be discovered and planted by English subjects all the English laws are immediately there in force. For as the law is the birthright of every subject, so wherever they... | |
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For it hath been held that if an uninhabited country be discovered and planted by English subjects, all the English laws then in being, which are the birthright of every subject are immediately there in force. But this must be understood with very many... 
