A Treatise of the Relative Rights and Duties of Belligerent and Neutral Powers in Maritime Affairs: in which the Principles of Armed Neutralities and the Opinions of Hubner and Schlegel are Fully DiscussedDiplomatic Review Office, 1875 - 180 pages |
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Page 167 - The above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized, resolved to concert among themselves as to the means of attaining this object ; and, having come to an agreement, have adopted the following solemn Declaration : — 1. 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. Blockades, in order to be binding,...
Page 169 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 167 - Considering : That maritime law, in time of war, has long been the subject of deplorable disputes; That the uncertainty of the law and of the duties in such a matter gives rise to differences of opinion between neutrals and belligerents which "may occasion serious difficulties, and even conflicts...
Page 168 - 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. " The governments of the undersigned Plenipotentiaries engage to bring the present declaration to the knowledge of the States which have not taken part in the Congress of Paris, and to invite them to accede to it.
Page i - A treatise of the relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral powers in maritime affairs, in which the principles of armed neutralities and the opinions of Hubner and Schlegel are fully discussed.
Page 162 - That the declaration of the officers who shall command the ship of war, or ships of war, of the king or emperor, which shall be convoying one or more merchant ships, that the convoy has no contraband goods on board, shall be sufficient, and that no search of his ship, or the other ships of the convoy, shall be permitted.
Page 33 - If the captured vessel is neutral property, and the cargo the property of enemies, the captor may compel the merchant vessel to carry the enemy's cargo to a place of safety, where the prize may be secure from all danger of recapture, paying to the vessel the whole freight, which she would have earned at her delivering port...
Page 159 - The desire of establishing universally the principle, that neutral bottoms shall make neutral goods, is perhaps felt by no nation on earth more strongly than by the United States. Perhaps no nation is more deeply interested in its establishment ; but the wish to establish a principle is essentially different from a determination that it is already established. The interests of the United States could not fail to produce the wish ; their duty forbids them to indulge it, when decided on a mere right."...
Page xii - The words of the proclamation are, 1. That all neutral ships may freely navigate from port to port, and on the coasts of nations at war.
Page 10 - La neutralité, dit-il, consiste dans une inaction entière relativement à la guerre, et dans une impartialité exacte et parfaite, manifestée par les faits à l'égard des belligérants, autant que cette impartialité a rapport à cette guerre même et aux moyens directs et immédiats de la faire.