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The Nueva Anna and Liebre. the Spanish Consul, Claimant

The Nueva Anna & Liebre, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 193 (1821)
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Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided
February 27, 1821
Citations
19 U.S. 1935 L. Ed. 2396 Wheat. 1931821 U.S. LEXIS 356
Cited by 8
Headnotes
(Prize.) This Court does not recognise the existence of any lawful Court of Prize at Galveztown, nor of any Mexican republic or state, with power to authorize captures in war.
Summary
Appeal from the District Court of Louisiana. These were the cases of the cargoes of two Spanish ships, captured and condemned by a pretended Court of Admiralty at Galveztown, constituted by Commodore Aury, under the alleged authority of the Mexican republic. The goods were, after this condemnation, brought into the port of New-Orleans, and there libelled by the original Spanish owners in the District Court. That Court decreed restitution to the original owners, and the captors appealed to this Court.

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Opinion

. The Court stated, that it did not recognise the existence of any Court of Admiralty sitting at Gal-veztown, with authority to adjudicate on captures, nor had, the Government of the United States hitherto acknowledged the existence of any Mexican .republic or state at war with Spain ; so that the Court could not consider as legal, any acts done under the *194 flag and commission of such republic or state. But, as the record, in this case, stated the capture to have been made under the flag of Buenos Ayres, it became necessary to send back the case, in order to ascertain under what authority it was in fact made.

Sentence reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.

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  1. McConaughy v. Secretary of State119 N.W. 408 (Minn. 1909)
  2. Latvian State Cargo & Passenger S. S. Line v. Clark80 F. Supp. 683 (D.D.C. 1948)
  3. Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831)
  4. The Three Friends166 U.S. 1 (1897)
  5. Wulfsohn v. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic138 N.E. 24 (N.Y. 1923)
  6. United States v. The Ambrose Light25 F. 408 (S.D.N.Y. 1885)

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  1. Latvian State Cargo & Passenger S. S. Line v. Clark80 F. Supp. 683 (D.D.C. 1948)
  2. Russian Volunteer Fleet v. United States68 Ct. Cl. 32 (Ct. Cl. 1929)
  3. Wulfsohn v. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic138 N.E. 24 (N.Y. 1923)
  4. McConaughy v. Secretary of State119 N.W. 408 (Minn. 1909)
  5. The Three Friends166 U.S. 1 (1897)
  6. United States v. The Ambrose Light25 F. 408 (S.D.N.Y. 1885)

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