Elements of International Law

Henry Wheaton

Stevens and sons, limited, 1904 - International law - 848 pages

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PART FIRST	1

System of Wolf	7

Opinion of Savigny	21

15a The authority of Text Writers	28

CHAPTER II	31

SECT	36

13a International Status of nonChristian Nations	37

Identity of a State how affected by external violence	38

CHAPTER II	364

American Law adopts the rule of reciprocity as to Restitution	370

Justification of refusal to ratify	372

Abortive attempts since 1830 to change the Federal Pact	382

Hostages for the execution of Treaties	402

Rules for interpreting Conventions of Truce	403

PART FOURTH	411

304a Practice of the Crimean	431

41a Constitution of the AustroHungarian Monarchy	42

29a Binding effect of Treaties	46

of the Internal Sovereignty of the States of the Germanic	48

United States of the Ionian Islands	52

Rights of Sovereign States with respect to one another	60

SECT	65

Congress of Verona	66

Legislative Power of the Union	79

Regulation of Property situated in a State	86

British interference in the affairs of Portugal in 1826	101

Interference of the five great European Powers in the Belgic	119

296a Civil	121

Clutterbuck	133

87a Matrimonial Domicile	134

Transfer of Property under foreign Bankrupt Proceedings 222	140

Alexanders Cotton Mrs 417 483	143

93	147

Exemption of foreign Ministers from the local jurisdiction	154

103a Distinction between Public and Private Ships	166

109a Abandonment of the custom	172

109b Case of the Trent	178

Extent of the Judicial Power over Criminal Offences	184

Rivers forming part of the Territory of the State	192

76ac Instances of Intervention	194

266a Commencement of Treaties	196

124ae Insurgents carrying on War at	201

Treaties to suppress the Slavetrade	208

Antelope The 172 214	214

Antonia Johanna The 464	220

Proceedings against absent Parties	226

Barbuits case 335	232

Foreign Divorces	235

Elphinstone 484	239

E Change of Domicile	241

RIGHTS OF EQUALITY SECT PAGE 152 Natural equality of States modified by Compact and Usage	252

Honours	253

The great Republics	254

Usage of the alternat	255

Language used in Diplomatic Intercourse	256

Maritime Ceremonial	258

CHAPTER IV	260

Conquest and Discovery confirmed by Compact and the 166 Papal Bull of 1493	262

Dispute between Great Britain and Spain relating to Nootka Sound	263

Freedom of Consent how far necessary to the validity	267

17276 Claim of the United States to the Oregon Territory	269

176a Occupations on the African Coast	275

177a The case of The Franconia	276

177c Extension of ThreeMile Belt	277

The Kings Chambers	278

179a Customs Legislation at the present time	279

Right of Fishery	280

Claims to portions of the Sea upon grounds of Prescription	283

The Black Sea the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles	284

1834 Danish Sovereignty over the Sound and Belts	286

Whether the Baltic Sea is mare clausum ?	289

Ports Mouths of Rivers c	293

The Marine League	294

How far a Declaration of War is necessary	297

Incidental Right to use the Banks of Rivers	298

205a Treaty of Washington as to the St Lawrence	314

206	321

P Former Discussion between England and America as to	324

Ministers of the Third Class	328

133b Fugitive Slaves	349

Duties and Taxes	354

247	357

Recapture of Neutral Property	363

315a Relaxation of Rules against Trade with the Enemy	444

59a Changes in the Swiss Constitution in 1848 and 1874	451

SECT PAGE 434e Rules of other Countries 589	468

340a The Flag as evidence of Ships Nationality	470

343e The Hague Declarations	477

Articles of Promiscuous Use becoming Contraband when	489

219	500

Portuguese	523

Right of Visitation and Search	524

384b Joint capture of Booty	529

Report on the Silesian Loan causes	538

Passports Safe Conducts and Licences	549

Ransom of captured Property	555

CHAPTER III	564

Conventional or Guaranteed Neutrality	575

Vessels chased into Neutral Territory and captured there	581

434c English Rules	588

434f Prizes fitted out as Ships of War	590

Arming and equipping of Vessels and enlisting Men within the Neutral Territority by either Belligerent unlawful	591

Prohibition enforced by American Municipal Statutes	592

439abb Neutrality Laws of Great Britain and the United States and Cases arising under them	595

Exclusive power of Civil Legislation	597

How far the immunity of the Neutral Territory extends to Neutral Vessels on the High Seas	613

Distinction between Public and Private Vessels	614

Usages of Nations subjecting Enemys Goods in Neutral Vessels to capture	615

Goods of a Friend on board the Ships of an Enemy liable to confiscation by the Prize Codes of some Nations	616

The two maxims of Free Ships Free Goods and Enemy Ships Enemy Goods not necessarily connected	617

Conventional Law as to Free Ships Free Goods	619

Treaties of Holland on the subject	620

Portuguese Treaty	622

Treaties Uniting the Maxims not renewed	623

Practice during the French Revolution	624

The International Law of Europe adopted by America and modified by Treaty	625

Conflict in Provisions of Treaties with England and France	627

45670 Discussion between the American and Prussian Govern ments	628

219	632

Rule in American Prize Courts	644

473	645

Rule of Enemy Ships Enemy Goods not applicable when the Goods are shipped before War	646

The Two Maxims in later Treaties	647

475a The Declaration of Paris	648

4779 Classification of Goods as Contraband by Grotius Vattel and Bynkershoek	649

4807 How far Naval Stores are Contraband	650

488	656

497	664

Brutus The	672

Transportation of Military Persons and Despatches in	673

507	679

508b Difference between Carriage by Land and	686

Knowledge of the Party	693

Some Act of Violation necessary	699

Neutral Vessels under enemys Convoy liable to Capture	710

Power of making Treaties of Peace limited in extent	724

Auxiliary Legislative Measures how far necessary to	725

Cessation of Hostilities after Treaty	732

How Disputes respecting the Breach are adjusted	733

A British and American Naturalization Acts	737

C	766

English Naval Prize	773

K AngloFrench Agreement of 1904	810

INDEX	817

Noncommissioned Captors	821

78	822

Good Faith towards Enemies	827

151	834

Succession to Personal Property ab intestato	839

Perfect or imperfect	848

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Title	Elements of International Law Da Capo Press reprints in American constitutional and legal history
Author	Henry Wheaton
Editor	James Beresford Atlay
Edition	4
Publisher	Stevens and sons, limited, 1904
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	18 Aug 2007
Length	848 pages

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