Blad v Bamfield
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1674 |
| Date | 01 January 1674 |
English Reports Citation: 36 E.R. 992
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
Blad
and
Bamfield
blad v. bamfield. In Chancery. -21 st November, 20 Car. 2, 1074. Perpetual injunction to restrain proceedings against a Dane, for tlie seizure of property of English subjects in Iceland, the seizure being sanctionsd by the Danish, authorities. The case of Peter Blad, a subject of Denmark, against Bamfield and Others, came now to be heard (of which see the beginning before at the council board (see the preceding case [and note])), and the scope of the suit was to stay several actions commenced at law in trespass and trover, for seizing certain [605] goods of the Defendants for trading in Iceland, contrary to certain privileges claimed there by the Plaintiff and others. The Defendants insisted that tins was no cause of state, and was ergo dismissed from the council table; that the injuries they had suffered were great, and such as were done with gome kind of affront to and contempt of the English nation ; that they had a most undoubted right of trade in Iceland, and by the articles of peace with Denmark, were to use their commerce with the subjects of Denmark without molestation ; that if the King of Denmark had granted any patents of...
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