Halleck's International Law: Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace and War, Volume 2

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C. K. Paul & Company, 1878 - International law - 1125 pages
 

Contents

Insurgent inhabitants and levies en masse
9
Hostile acts of private persons on the high seas
10
Use of privateers
11
Privateers not used in recent wars
12
Exceptions to rule of exemption
13
Declaration of the Conference of Paris in 1856
14
Privateers by whom commissioned
15
Treaty stipulations respecting privateers
16
Implements of
17
Use of poisoned weapons
18
Poisoning wells food
20
Surprises
21
Allowable deceptions
22
Stratagems
23
Use of a false flag at
24
Deceitful intelligence
25
Employment of spies
26
Cases of Hale and André
27
Rewarding traitors
28
Intestine divisions of enemys subjects
29
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113 114 115 115 117 117 118 119 120 121
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The Enemy and his Allies
52
A warlike association
63
enemy
79
Mexican war 18 Remarks on military pillage 19 Property taken on field of battle or in a siege 20 All booty primarily belongs to the State 21 Municip...
96
CHAPTER XXII
124
421
128
515
152
Trade with the Enemy
154
517
169
CHAPTER XXIV
173
Qualified neutrality
174
Advantages and resulting duties of neutrality
175
Hostilities not allowed within neutral jurisdiction
177
Passage of troops through neutral territory
178
Pretended exception to inviolability of neutral territory
179
Opinions of European and American publicists
180
Right of asylum
182
Presumptive right of entry
183
Arming vessels and enlisting troops
184
Loans of money by neutrals
195
Pursuit of enemy from neutral port
196
Passage over neutral waters
197
Municipal laws in favour of neutrality
198
Laws of United States
199
Of Great Britain
203
Protection of neutral inviolability
204
Claim for restitution
206
If captured property be in possession of a neutral
207
Purchasers in foreign ports
208
If condemned in captors country
209
CHAPTER XXV
211
Course of England and France in the wars of Napoleon
218
Their declarations in 1854 and 1856
219
If blockading vessels be driven away by superior force
220
Contraband of War PAGE 221
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231
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I
242
Intended use deduced from destination
261
Provisions
262
Preemption
263
Contested by other nations
264
CHAPTER XXVII
267
Neutral vessels under enemys convoy
293
Effect of resistance of master on cargo
295
Neutral property in armed enemy vessel
296
Documents requisite to prove neutral character
297
Concealment of papers
298
Use of false papers
299
Impressment of seamen from neutral vessels
300
American rule as defined by Webster
302
Neutral vessels transporting enemys goods
305
CHAPTER XXIX
340
Cartel ships
355
Their rights and duties
356
Ransom of prisoners of war
357
Ransom of captured property
358
If ransom vessel be lost or stranded
359
Hostages for captures and prisoners
360
Suits on contracts of ransom
361
CHAPTER XXX
364
522
365
Character of the vessel
371
Change of national character during voyage
372
Protection to enemys goods
373
Licence to alien enemy
374
If cargo be injured
375
Compulsory change of cargo
376
Change of port of destination
377
Time limited in licence
378
If not on board or not endorsed
379
CHAPTER XXXI
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Distribution of headmoney 27 Collusive captures 28 Forfeiture of claims to prize 29 Liability of captors for damages and costs 30 Of commanders of...
401
CHAPTER XXXII
411
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414
Rights of Military Occupation
426
428
428
Duty of the captor in certain cases
430
When rights of military occupation begin 3 Submission sufficient 4 Effect upon political laws 5 Upon municipal laws 6 Punishment of crimes in such...
444
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VOL II
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466
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469
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480
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485
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CHAPTER XXXV
512
533
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34
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Earl Derbys letter to the Treasury and other Departments 1877
553
International Courts in Egypt Territorial Waters of the British Empire
559
INDEX
567

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Page 219 - 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 16 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. 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.
Page 492 - ... to the United States by this treaty shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and admitted to the enjoyment of the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Page 185 - A neutral Government is bound — " First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Page 186 - And whereas the privilege of exterritoriality accorded to vessels of war has been admitted into the law of nations, not as an absolute right, but solely as a proceeding founded on the principle of courtesy and mutual deference between different nations, and therefore can never be appealed to for the protection of acts done in violation of neutrality...
Page 17 - And that the private property of the subjects or citizens of a belligerent on the high seas shall be exempted from seizure by public armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be contraband.
Page 542 - He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the court before which the offender is convicted; and imprisonment, if awarded, may be either with or without hard labour.
Page 349 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit : Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer...
Page 36 - As martial law is executed by military force, it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity — virtues adorning a soldier even more than other men, for the very reason that he possesses the power of his arms against the unarmed.
Page 455 - Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war.

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