 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 페이지
...claims already created against the vessel by the collision. To this Mr. Justice Holmes replied that "legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but are elusive to the grasp." What the court in the previous case called an "unenforceable lien," he says,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1922 - 808 페이지
...it is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp. The leading authority relied upon is The Siren, 7 Wall. 152. MCKENNA, DAY, and CLARKE, JJ., dissenting.... | |
 | 1924 - 960 페이지
...Mr. Justice HOLMES delivering the opinion of the Court said: tion is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp." Mr. Justice McKJENXA, who delivered the dissenting opinion, speaking of our maritime law, said : "... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1923 - 1412 페이지
...it is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law, but that are elusive to the grasp. The leading authority relied upon is The Siren. 7 Wall. 152, 19 L. ed. 129. [434] The ground of that... | |
 | 1924 - 1284 페이지
...every reference to the doctrine of a lien attaching regardless of the shipowner's personal liability. " Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp," 4S — which asserts that Justice Field saw ghosts in The Siren. That a ship for purposes of lien may... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1924 - 544 페이지
...government vessel so as to subject it to a maritime lien as soon as it returns into private ownership; "Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law, but that are elusive to the grasp." See EM Borchard, 31 Yale LJ 879. 1 Ames, 468, note, accord. But the learned editor of Saunders' Reports... | |
 | 1923 - 1096 페이지
...it Is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation Is created In the case before us. Legal obligations that exist, but cannot be enforced,...seen in the law, but that are elusive to the grasp. The leading authority relied upon is The Siren, 7 Wall. 152. The ground of that decision was that when... | |
 | 1925 - 1182 페이지
...requisition. Justice Holmes overruled the theory of liens originally unenforceable but later maturing, saying: "Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in' the law but that are elusive to the grasp." The Siren was distinguished upon the ground that in that case "Immune— The Roseric (DCNJ 1918) 254... | |
 | Naval War College (U.S.) - 1925 - 246 페이지
...recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but can not be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp. The leading authority relied upon is The Siren, 7 Wall. 152. The ground of that decision was that when... | |
 | 1926 - 1086 페이지
...it is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp." Mr. Justice McKenna,- who delivered the dissenting opinion, speaking of our maritime law, said: "The... | |
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Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp. 
