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21. Rule of decision in case of personal property,
22. Distinction between contracts inter vivos and causa mortis,
23. Between assignments in bankruptcy and voluntary assignments,
24. Jurisdiction over public and private vessels on the high seas,
25. Public armed vessels and their prizes in foreign ports,
26. Private vessels in foreign ports,
27. Summary of the judicial powers of a state,
28. Extradition of criminals,
29. Extra territorial operation of a criminal sentence,
175
30. Conclusiveness of foreign jndgments in personal actions,
31. Conclusivenes of foreign judgments in rem,
176
32. Foreign courts, how far exclusive judges of their own jurisdiction,
33. Proof of foreign laws,
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26. What department of government may send and receive such agents,
186
10. Treaties by semi-sovereign and dependent states,
188
11. Treaty-making power of a state,
189
12. Treaties, in general, to be ratified,
13. Exception in cases of truces, etc.,
14. Sponsions and their ratification,
15. Legislation necessary to carry them into effect,
16. Constitution of the United States on this subject,
17. Treaty with France in 1831,
18. Treaty with Great Britain in 1824,
19. Auxilliary legislation in United States and Great Britain,
20. Real and personal treaties,
21. Other divisions of treaties,
22. Equal and unequal treaties,
23. Treaties of guarantee and surety,
24. Treaties of confederation and association,
25. Treaties of alliance, of succor and subsidy,
26. Treaties of amity or friendship,
227. Treaties of commerce, of boundaries, etc.,
CHAPTER IX.
16. In case of voluntary submission to local jurisdiction,
214
22. Exemption of minister's house and personal effects,
23. His real estate and private personal property,
1. Origin of the institution of consuls,
239
2. Object of consulates in modern times, -
4. Commissions and exequaturs,
240
3. Divisions of the consular organization,
5. Consuls have no representative or diplomatic character,
9. The office to be distinguished from the personal status of the officer, 245
10. If exequatur be issued to a citizen without conditions,
11. Opinions of text-writers,
12. United States laws respecting foreign consuls,
13. Duties and powers respecting their own countrymen,
14. They have no civil or criminal jurisdiction,
15. The granting of passports,
16. Certificates, acknowledgements, etc.,
17. Can afford no refuge from civil process,
18. Engaging in trade,
19. Judicial decisions on public character of consuls,
20. Powers and privileges extended by treaty and municipal law,
21. Consuls of christian states in the east,
22. Origin of difference of powers,
23. Same system extended to China,
24. Treaty between Great Britain and China,
25. Act of parliament,
26. British orders and instructions,
27. Treaty between France and China,
28. French laws and regulations,
29. Treaty between the United States and China,
30. Remarks of United States commissioner on this treaty,
31. Act of congress for carrying it into effect,
32. Decree of United States commissioner in China,
33. Controversies between subjects of foreign states in China,
34. Mr. Cushing's opinion on this subject,
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18. In case of famine,
19. In case of floods, fires, etc.,
20. For the preservation of others,
21. Duties of humanity,
22. Offices of humanity may be asked but not required,
23. Each one to determine whether it will grant them,
24. Rule and measure of such offices,
25. Duty of international friendship,
CHAPTER XII.
Settlement of International Disputes.
1. Duty of moderation in international disputes,
2. Two classes of means for their settlement, -
3. Amicable accommodation,
4. Compromise,
25. Mediation,
26. Rejection of offers of mediation,
7. Arbitration,
28. Conferences and congresses,
9. Retortion,
10. Retaliation,
11. Nature of reprisals,
12. General and special reprisals,
13. Positive and negative reprisals,
14. Seizure of the thing in dispute,
15. Necessity of proving title before seizure,
216. Reprisals upon persons,
17. Seizure and punishment of the individuals offending,
18. If the government of the offenders assume their acts,
19. Case of McLeod,
20. Decision of the New York court, -
21. Opinion of Mr. Webster,
22. The New York decision not authority,
23. Opinions of American writers,
24. Opinions of European publicists, -
25. Embargoes of property found within territory of injured state,
26. General effect of reprisals, seizures and embargoes,
27. Sir William Scott's opinion of the embargoes of 1803,