Portugal
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Portugal the group
Portuguese water · Queen of Portugal
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Country cited as an example that national independence alone has not clearly brought great benefit to its people.
No foreigner tyrannises over Spain or Portugal, yet it may be doubted whether independence has brought immense benefit to Spaniards or to Portuguese.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Portugal, cited alongside Spain regarding female succession under constitutional government.
and quite recently, in Spain and Portugal, the establishment of constitutional government coincided with the overthrow of the rule which excluded queens from the throne.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The Kingdom of Portugal, named alongside Spain in the Navigation Act's proviso allowing importation from its ports.
Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of this Commonwealth, in vessels or ships to them belonging, and whereof the master and mariners are of this nation as aforesaid, to load and bring in from any of the ports of Spain and Portugal, all sorts of goods or commodities that have come from, or any way belonged unto the plantations or dominions of either of them respectively.
The Law of Torts
Kingdom in whose service and waters Admiral Napier's capture of an English ship took place.
Napier, Admiral Napier having, when in the service of the Queen of Portugal, captured in Portuguese water an English ship breaking blockade, was held by the Court of Common Pleas to be justified by the law of Portugal and of nations, though his serving under a foreign prince was contrary to English law, and subjected him to penalties under the Foreign Enlistment Act.