INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE USE OF NAVAL OFFICERS BY C. H. STOCKTON, LL. D. Rear Admiral U. S. N., Retired Author of "The Laws and Usages of War at Sea: (REVISED. EDITION) 1917 NAVAL INSTITUTE ANNAPOLIS, MD. Copyright, 1911, by U. S. NAVAL INSTITUTE Protected by Imperial Copyright Great Britain 255631 The Lord Baltimore Press BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. PREFACE. In preparing this book as a manual for officers of the United States Navy, I have not aimed at any undue originality; but rather to present matter than can be considered sound and authoritative. For that reason I have drawn largely from the Digest of International Law by Prof. J. B. Moore, a mine of information as to the accepted and historical policy of our government. The works of Dr. Thos. J. Lawrence and Prof. Oppenheim have been quoted very largely as the best and most recent treatises in English representing the European point of view upon matters of international law. My study of international law, begun at the United States Naval Academy and continued during mature years at the Naval War College, convinces me that to no service of the government is a knowledge of international law more valuable than to that of the navy. I might also add that, so far as my experience goes, there is no naval service whose members are more familiar with the tenets of the laws of nations than our own. CHARLES H. STOCKTON, Rear-Admiral U. S. Navy, Retired. THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 1, 1910. NOTE TO REVISED EDITION. Advantage has been taken of the printing of a new edition of this book to revise it to a limited extent. A supplementary chapter, an index and some additional papers in the appendix have been added to the text. FEBRUARY 1, 1917. C. H. S. |