Sea Law and Sea Power as They Would be Affected by Recent Proposals; with Reasons Against Those Proposals |
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accede Admiralty appeal APPENDIX Article blockaded port Britain British Prize Courts capture cargo carriage carrying trade command commission condemnation contact mines contraband contraband of war Contracting Powers convention of war Convention relative convoy crew Declaration of London Declaration of Paris deposit of ratifications deputy judges destroy diplomatic channel duly certified copy effect enemy property enemy ship enemy's force Foreign France freights Germany H.M. Government Hague High Court International Prize Court jurisdiction land law of nations liable Lord Loreburn Majesty Majesty's maritime rights ment merchant ships military naval power Naval Prize Bill navy Netherland Government neutral flag neutral or enemy neutral port neutral Power neutral ships neutral vessel notification officers outbreak of hostilities paragraph Parliament Plenipotentiaries present Convention principle private property Protocol Protocol recording provisions question respect risk rules Russia sea power sea-borne Second Peace Conference Sir Edward Grey supplies Supreme Prize Court surrender tion transfer voyage warship whereof
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Page 235 - Government, which shall immediately communicate a duly certified copy of the notification to all the other Powers informing them of the date on which it was received. The denunciation shall only have effect in regard to the notifying Power, and one year after the notification has reached the Netherland Government.
Page 267 - Government shall inform them at the same time of the date on which it received the notification. ARTICLE...
Page 198 - The transfer of an enemy vessel to a neutral flag, effected before the outbreak of hostilities, is valid, unless it is proved that such transfer was made in order to evade the consequences to which an enemy vessel, as such, is exposed.
Page 246 - Powers wishing to denounce the present Convention, the denunciation shall be notified in writing to the...
Page 180 - ARTICLE 35. Conditional contraband is not liable to capture, except when found on board a vessel bound for territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or for the armed forces of the enemy, and when it is not to be discharged in an intervening neutral port. The ship's papers are conclusive proof both as to the voyage on which the vessel is engaged and as to the port of discharge of the goods, unless she is found clearly out of the course Indicated by her papers, and unable to give adequate reasons...
Page 237 - ... have been received. Each contracting power is entitled to have access to this register and to be supplied with duly certified extracts from it.
Page 279 - Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule...
Page 130 - Convention for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Convention to maritime war;1 XI. Convention relative to certain restrictions on the exercise of the right of capture in maritime war ; XII.
Page 228 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 130 - After due notice has been given, the bombardment of undefended ports, towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings may be commenced, if the local authorities, after a formal summons has been made to them, decline to comply with requisitions for provisions or supplies necessary for the immediate use of the naval force before the place in question.