The Principles of International Law

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Macmillan and Company, 1910 - International law - 745 pages
 

Contents

The history of the rules of ordinary maritime capture
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CHAPTER III
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Voluntary restrictions upon the freedom of action of sovereign states
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Involuntary restrictions upon the freedom of action of sovereign states PAGE
61
Intervention Its essential characteristics General considerations with regard to intervention
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Various conclusions concerning intervention
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CHAPTER IV
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RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS CONNECTED WITH JURISDICTION
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Diplomatic intercourse necessary
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Diplomatic immunities
128
The obligation of treaties
134
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS CONNECTED WITH PROPERTY 71 States are political units capable of holding both territorial and nonterritorial p...
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1 Occupation 75 Modes of acquiring territory 2 Accretion 76 Modes of acquiring territory 3 Cession 77 Modes of acquiring territory 4 Conquest ...
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A state may exercise power over territory as 3 A sphere of influence
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A state may exercise power over 4 A leased territory Less important modes of exercising power over territory Chartered companies and pioneer work
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Rights over waters 1 Claims to sovereignty over the high seas 2 The American claim to prohibit sealfishing in Bering Sea 3 Claims to jurisdiction bey...
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5 The special case of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus
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6 The position in International Law of interoceanic canals
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7 The use of sea fisheries
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8 The navigation of great arterial rivers
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A state has jurisdiction over all persons and things within
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The history of neutrality
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Distinction between piracy by the law of nations and piracy
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1 Foreign
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The case of political offenders and fugitive slaves
254
The conditions generally inserted in extradition treaties
260

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Page 201 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 328 - that it is an essential principle of the law of nations that no power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting powers, by means of an amicable arrangement.
Page 711 - The following may not be declared contraband of war: — (1) Raw cotton, wool, silk, jute, flax, hemp, and other raw materials of the textile industries, and yarns of the same. (2) Oil seeds and nuts; copra. (3) Rubber,, resins, gums, and lacs; hops. (4) Raw hides and horns, bones, and ivory. (5) Natural and artificial manures, including nitrates and phosphates for agricultural purposes. (6) Metallic ores.
Page 108 - The seat of judicial authority is, indeed, locally here, in the belligerent country, according to the known law and practice of nations ; but the law itself has no locality. It is the duty of the person who sits here to determine this question exactly as he would determine the same question if sitting at Stockholm...
Page 637 - ... carry on war against a power with which it is at peace ; and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use.
Page 431 - ... fortunes and their own at the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 200 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
Page 542 - 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.
Page 204 - Labrador ; but so soon as the same, or any portion thereof, shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such portion so settled, without previous agreement for such purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 514 - Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and the dictates of the public conscience...

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