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The Laws and Usages of War at Sea: A Naval War Code (Classic Reprint) Charles H. Stockton No preview available - 2017 |
The Laws and Usages of War at Sea: A Naval War Code (Classic Reprint) Charles H. Stockton No preview available - 2017 |
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allowed thirty days appraised armistice arms and instruments authorities belligerent blockaded port bombardment capitulation capture or destruction cargoes and depart carrying contraband commander contraband of war crew destined detention Due regard duly enemy evade a blockade exempt from capture horizontal band hospital ships hostilities LAWS AND USAGES laws of war liable to capture liable to seizure load their cargoes maritime material Merchant vessels meters wide military necessity military or naval military purposes munitions naval force naval service neutral port neutral vessel carrying Neutral vessels found noncombatants notification of blockade offense officer papers PENFIELD permit personnel port of departure prescribe prisoners prisoners of war prize court prize master respect right of search sailed SECTION seized sels shipwrecked sick special notification subject to capture Submarine telegraphic cables territorial waters tion treaties stipulating otherwise undefended towns unfortified and undefended United States Navy vessel or vessels violating or attempting wounded
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Page 6 - The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.
Page 11 - Whenever any captured vessel, arms, munitions, or other material are taken for the use of the United States before it comes into the custody of the prize court, it shall be surveyed, appraised, and inventoried, by persons as competent and impartial as can be obtained, and the survey, appraisement, and inventory shall be sent to the court in which proceedings are to be had; and if taken...
Page 14 - Military hospital ships, that is to say, ships constructed or assigned by States specially and solely with a view to assisting the wounded, sick, and shipwrecked, the names of which have been communicated to the belligerent Powers at the commencement or during the course of hostilities, and in any case before they are employed, shall be respected, and cannot be captured while hostilities last.
Page 17 - ... to the contrary between the neutral State and the belligerent States, be guarded by the neutral State so as to prevent them again taking part in the operations of the war.
Page 10 - The United States acknowledge and protect, in hostile countries occupied by them, religion and morality ; strictly private property ; the persons of the inhabitants, especially those of women ; and the sacredness of domestic relations. Offenses to the contrary shall be rigorously punished.
Page 24 - ... blockade, the date and place, verified by his official signature. The vessel is then to be set free; and should she again attempt to enter the same or any other blockaded port as to which she has had notice she is good prize.
Page 22 - Coal, when destined for a naval station, a port of call, or a ship or ships of the enemy; materials for the construction of railways or telegraphs, and money, when such materials or money are destined for the enemy's forces; provisions, when destined for an enemy's ship or ships, or for a place that is besieged.
Page 25 - PRIZES. 20. Prizes should be sent in for adjudication, unless otherwise directed, to the nearest home port, in which a prize court may be sitting. 21. The prize should be delivered to the court as nearly as possible in the condition in which she was at the time of seizure; and to this end her papers should be sealed at the time of seizure, and kept in the custody of the prize master.
Page 21 - Vessels, whether neutral or otherwise, carrying contraband of war destined for the enemy, are liable to seizure and detention, unless treaty stipulations otherwise provide.
Page 17 - The shipwrecked, wounded, or sick of one of the belligerents who fall Into the power of the other belligerent are prisoners of war.