Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS being a cause in which the sovereign right claimed by Napoieon, the reigning emperor of the Trench, and the. political relations between the United States and France, were involved, it was,'upon the suggestión of the Attorney General, ordered to » hearing preference to other causes which stood before it on the11 docket» It .was an appeal from the.sentehc.e of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvaiiia, which reversed the sentence of the…
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THIS being a cause in which the sovereign right claimed by Napoieon, the reigning emperor of the Trench, and the. political relations between the United States and France, were involved, it was,'upon the suggestión of the Attorney General, ordered to » hearing preference to other causes which stood before it on the11 docket» It .was an appeal from the.sentehc.e of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvaiiia, which reversed the sentence of the District Cour.t,1 and ordered the vessel to b.e restored to the lihellants. The case was this — -on the 24th of August,…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
Delivered the opinion of the Court, as follows:
This case involves the very delicate and important1 inquiry, whether an American citizen can assert, in an American court, a title to an armed national vessel, found.within the waters of the United States.
The question has been considered-with an earnest solicitud?, that the decision may conform to those princi - pies- of national and municipal law by which ft ought to be regulated.
In exploring an unbeaten path, with-few, if any, aids from precedents or written law, the court has found it necessary to rely much on general…
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