Neutral cover
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 14 U.S. 62 - Buhring · 1816Most cited · 3 citing opinions
does not protect citizen trading with enemy
So far from such documents, when intended only as a cover, affording any protection to the property, they render the party resorting to them doubly criminal, by the scene of fraud and perjury which must be waded through in order to obtain them; and then, in case of disaster, to make a court believe that such papers disclose nothing but the real truth of the case.
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