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A contract for payment of ransom of a captured vessel, with stipulations of safe-conduct, if she pursue a certain course and arrive in a certain time. If found out of time or course, the safeconduct is void. Wheaton, Int. Law, 107*. The payment cannot be enforced in England, during war, by an action on the contract, but can in this country. 1 Kent, Comm. 104, 105; 4 Wash. C. C. (U. S.) 141; 2 Gall. (U. S.) 325.

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A contract for payment of ransom of a captured vessel, with stipulations of safe-conduct, if she pursue a certain course and arrive in a certain time. If found out of time or course, the safeconduct is void. Wheaton, Int. Law, 107*. The payment cannot be enforced in England, during war, by an action on the contract, but can in this country. 1 Kent, Comm. 104, 105; 4 Wash. C. C. (U. S.) 141; 2 Gall. (U. S.) 325.

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