 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1843 - 576 strani
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which " the necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two Governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 414 strani
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the "necessity of that self-defense is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 660 strani
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the " necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 658 strani
...exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which the " necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Understanding these principles alike, the difference between the two governments is only whether the... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - 1866 - 804 strani
...infringement of territorial rights, the British Government must show "a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation ; " and it should further appear that the Canadian authorities, in acting under this exigence, "did... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1874 - 44 strani
...self-defence do exist, those exceptions should be confined to cases in which, the necessity of that defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Let this rule be applied to the Spanish seizure of the Virginius, with all the exactness that is possible,... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 strani
...in which this extreme resorted to should be those only in which " the necessity of that defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Within such a description as this, such a state of things as that which arose in connection with the... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1888 - 388 strani
...and destruction of the " Caroline," the British government must show " a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation," and that in accomplishing their end their agents " did nothing unreasonable or excessive." Ashburton... | |
 | Freeman Snow - 1893 - 636 strani
...infringement of territorial rights, the British government must show "a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation ; " and it should further appear that the Canadian authorities, in acting under this exigence, " did... | |
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... instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation. 
