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 A Century of English Judicature. opportunity of giving unity and consistency to a whole department of law. The legal interruption to navigation which both belligerent parties may create against neutrals, the rights of joint captors, cases of unlawful detention and seizure, the force and

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points his judgments are still the only law; and little popular as they were at the moment among Americans, who often suffered by them, they have since been accepted by our courts as authoritative. Fortified by a store of knowledge at once profound and exten-

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construction of different treaties, the exist ence of an actual blockade, the condemnation of merchant ships for resisting search, ques tions of domicile, the extent of the protection of cartel, the extent of territorial claims, the validity of orders in council—these are among the subjects adjudicated by him with such unerring accuracy that, though often appealed from, it is stated that not a single one was reversed. Upon many maritime

sive, combining all the materials that inde fatigable research, close and minute observa tion and intense study could provide for the supply of an acute, vigorous and capacious mind, the judgments of Lord Stowell in in ternational law have passed into precedents equal, if not superior, to those of the ven erable authors of the science, Puffendorf, Grotius and Vattel. His work, like theirs, was animated by the spirit of universal jus