Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1795
..... constant practice to modify a decree upon an appeal as the justice of the case requires, and in this instance it appears to me, under the 24th section of the judicial act, we are to render such a decree as in our opinion the district court ought to have rendered. if this was a case wherein damages were ..... as the sovereign power of war and peace respecting great britain, and that to that power is necessarily incident that of carrying on war in a regular way, of raising armies, making regulations for their discipline and government, commissioning officers, equipping fleets, granting letters of marque and reprisal, the power (now contested) of deciding, in all cases of ..... , military or naval stores of what kind soever, and all vessels to whomsoever belonging, that shall be employed in carrying provisions or other necessaries to the british army or armies or navy that now are or shall hereafter be within any of the united colonies, or any goods, wares, or merchandise for the use of such fleet or .....
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