 | John Almon - 1797 - 428 pages
...natives. The Fifth propofition I mail ftate is : — That the laws of a conquered country continue until they are altered by the conqueror. — The abfurd...fhews the univerfality and antiquity of the maxim :— • The exception could not exift before the Chriltian era ; and, in all probability, arofe from... | |
 | John Almon - 1797 - 212 pages
...the natives. The Fifth propofition I mall Hate is : — That the laws of a conquered country continue until they are altered by the conqueror. — The abfurd exception, as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's eafe, (hews the univerfality and antiquity of the maxim :— • The exception could not exift before... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1800 - 444 pages
...Minorca, the Ijle of Man, or the Plantutigns, has no privilege dill met from the natives. The 51!*, That the laws of a conquered country continue in force,...conqueror: the abfurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin'f cafe, (hews the univerfaliry and antiquity of the itiaxim. For that dil\inction could not... | |
 | William Roberts - 1807 - 522 pages
...Ireland, Minorca, the Isle of Man, or the Plantations, has no privilege distinct from the natives. That the laws of a conquered country continue in force, until they are altered by the conqueror : the universality and antiquity of which maxim is shown by the absurd exception as to Pagans mentioned in... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1827 - 624 pages
...Ireland, Minorca, the Isle of Man, or the Plantations, has no privilege distinct from the natives. 5. The laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror. The absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shows the universality and antiquity of... | |
 | Beamish Murdoch - 1832 - 260 pages
...Minorca, the Isle of Man, or the plantations, has no privilege distinct from the natives. The 5th. That the laws of a conquered country continue in force, until they are altered by the conqueror. The 6th and last proposition is, that if the king (and when I say the king I always mean the king without... | |
 | 1837 - 682 pages
...Mahommedan ever made of this. The rights of none have ever clashed with those of the other. "The 5th, that the laws of a conquered country continue in force, until they are altered by the conqueror: the absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's case, shews the universality and antiquity of... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 418 pages
...the line is avoided, if, in conformity to the 5th Resolution in Campbell and Hall, you say, " that the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror." That leaves no uncertainty or difficulty, as the colony is to remain as it was before.—(p. 944, 945.)... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1841 - 408 pages
...the line is avoided, if, in conformity to the 5lh Resolution in Campbell and Hall, ynu say, " that the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror." That leaves no uncertainty or difficulty, as the colony is to remain as it icas before. — (p. 944,... | |
 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey - 1842 - 218 pages
...pagans in Calvin's case was absurd, and only showed the universality and antiquity of the maxim, that the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror. For that distinction could not exist before the Christian era, and in all probability arose from the... | |
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That the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror: the absurd exception as to Pagans, mentioned in Calvin's Case, shows the universality and antiquity of the maxim. 
