Re: Born on a ship...birthplace?
- From: exjxw.hannivoort@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Evertjan.)
- Date: 18 Oct 2009 18:10:51 -0700
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if a person was born on a ship, on its way to NY, what would they put
down as their birthplace?
Proper would be the country of registration of the ship,
and "on open sea" as the town, as long as the ship was in international
waters, keeping in mind that the ship's registration's national laws could
deside otherways.
Probably Hugo Grotius' "Mare Liberum" [1609] would be the standard volume
to read for what is proper here in international law:
<http://www.kb.nl/galerie/mareliberum/browse/index_1.html>
What the Ellis island authorities would have written down
is quite another thing.
Evertjan Hannivoort.
The Netherlands.
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