PART X.

CHAPTER I.

CONTRABAND. Pp. 315-381.

How far Neutrals may trade with Enemies. Not with Contraband Goods.

What is Contraband?

1. Munitions of War.

2. Sale of, at Home.

3. Articles ancipitis vel promiscui usûs. Commeatus.

4. Doctrine of Preemption.

5. Carrying of Military Persons.

6. Carrying of Despatches.

7. Principal Treaties on the Subject.

CHAPTER II.

BLOCKADE. Pp. 382-416.

1. For what Purpose it may be constituted.

2. Who may constitute it.

3. What constitutes it.

4. What continues it.

5. What vitiates it.

6. How it may be resumed after Discontinuance.

7. Breach of and Consequences.

8. Berlin and Milan Decrees. Orders in Council of 1809. North American

United States' Non-Intercourse Act.

CHAPTER III.

RIGHT OF VISIT AND SEARCH. Рp. 417-448.

1. When it may be exercised.

2. Where.

3. By what Kind of Force.

4. How.

5. Upon what Kind of Property.

6. Consequences of Resistance to.

7. Principal Treaties respecting.

CHAPTER IV.

Right of CaptuRE-DUTY OF CAPTOR. Pp. 449 485.

1. What may be captured.

2. What constitutes Capture.

3. Where Capture may be made.

4. To whose benefit Capture enures.

5. When it enures.

6. What must be done by the Captor after Capture, and to what Ports cap-

tured Property may be taken.

7. In the Courts of what Country it must be adjudicated upon.

8. Where captured Property must be at the Time of Condemnatian.

9. Forfeiture of Captor's Title to Prize by Misconduct.

CHAPTER V.

I. NON-COMMISSIONED CAPTORS. II. JOINT CAPTURE. III. CAPTURES BY

TENDERS. Pp. 486-501.

CHAPTER VI.

POSTLIMINIUM-RECAPTURE-RANSOM. Pp. 502-532.

PART XI.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL CHARACTER AND DUTY OF TRIBUNALS OF PRIZE. Pp. 533-541.

CHAPTER II.

CONSTITUTION OF PRIZE TRIBUNALS IN DIFFERENT STATES. Pp. 542-550.

CHAPTER III.

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRIZE TRIBUNALS.-GENERAL OUTLINE.
Pp. 251-559.

CHAPTER IV.

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRIZE TRIBUNALS. Pp. 560-637.

I. Custody of the Prize.

II. Process and Practice of Court.

1. Generally. Rights and Duties of captors with reference to the conduct of

Suit. Ditto of Claimants. 2. Particularly. The Pleadings. The Evi-

dence. Further Proof. a. To Claimants. 3. To Captors.

The Sentence, including the decision. 1. As to the Legality of the Seizure.

2. As to the subsequent Conduct of Captors and Claimants. 3. As to

Costs, Expenses and Freight.

III. The Appellate Tribunal.

PART XII.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE MANNER OF ENDING WAR AND THE RE-ESTABLISHING OF PEACE.

Pp. 638-659.

Bellum pacis causâ suscipitur. Three Ways by which War may be concluded

and Peace restored. Status quo ante bellum. Uti possidetis. Overtures of

Peace. Captures made after Peace. Treaties of Peace. Effect of Silence

in Treaties. Different Effects of permanent and temporary Subjugation of a

Country. Russia and Denmark, 1851.

CHAPTER II.

HOW TREATIES ENTERED INTO BEFORE THE WAR ARE AFFECTED WHEN THE

WAR IS CONCLUDED AND PEACE RESTORED. Pp. 660-679.

Authorities and Cases upon this Point. Treaties abrogated by War. Practice

of States. Debates in Parliament upon the Peace of Amiens, 1801. Case

of the Spanish Marriages, 1846.

CHAPTER III.

WHERE, HOW, AND UNDER WHAT LIMITATIONS THE DOCTRINE OF POSTLIMINIUM

MAY BE APPLIED TO STATES AND THE SUBJECTS OF STATES ON THE RETURN

OF PEACE. Pp. 680-684.

Distinction between Public and International Law upon this Subject. Distinc-
tion between (1.) the Effect of a simple Conquest, or the Acts of Conqueror,
and the Effect of (2.) an Interregnum, or the Acts of a De facto Sovereign.
Conquest distinguished from Occupation.

CHAPTER IV.

THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AS TO THE POWER OF THE CONQUERor,

and of the Sovereign de facto, OVER INCORPOREAL THINGS. Pp. 685-699.

Incorporeal Rights attached to a Thing. To a Person. Jura Obligationis.

Grotius, Cocceius, Pfeiffer, Burlamaqui. Debts due to a third party do not

accrue to the Conqueror from Possession of the Debtor. Question considered,

whether they accrue to him from Possession of Instruments or Documents of

the Debtor or Obligor. Case of Public Debts considered, whether they accrue

to Conqueror by virtue of Seizure and Confiscation. Various Authorities

thereon.

CHAPTER V.

INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AS TO THE POWER OF THE CONQUEROR AND THE

SOVEREIGN DE FACTO OVER INCORPOREAL THINGS. Pp. 700-707.

1. Public Acts of States considered.

2. Treaties. 3. Cases. The Case of Alexander, the Thessaliens, and the

Thebans. Quintilian thereupon. Case of Antiochus and the Romans. Case

of the Fleming and the Frenchman, A. D. 1349. Case of Pisa and Florence,

at the end of 14th Century. Case of the Angevins and the Arragonese at

Naples, a. D. 1495.

CHAPTER VI.

CASE OF THE DEBTS AND DOMAINS OF HESSE-CASSEL CONFISCATED OR ALIEN-

ATED BY NAPOLEON I. Pp. 708-719.

CHAPTER VII.

POSTLIMINIUM-DECISIONS IN ENGLISH COURTS OF JUSTICE. Pp. 720-727.

CHAPTER VIII.

DOCTRINE OF POSTLIMINIUM AS TO PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY WHICH

HAVE BEEN, DURING THE WAR, UNDER THE DOMINION OF THE ENEMY, AND

NOT CONFISCATED BY THE STATE. Pp. 728, to End.

Doctrine of Postliminium growing out of the Silence of a Treaty applied to—

1. Personal Status.

2. Immovable Property (immobilia).

3. Movable Property (mobilia)

4. Obligations, Such as Contracts, Debts (Jura incorporalia; Forderungs-

rechte).

Conclusion.

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME.

BEING ADDITIONAL TO THOSE REFERRED TO IN THE FORMER VOLUMES.

A.

Abreu y Bertodano (Joseph Antonio de), Coleccion de los Tratados de Paz, Allianza, Neutralidad, &c. (De Felix Joseph de), Tratado Juridico Politico sobre Presas de Mar, &c.

Acton's Admiralty Reports.

Acts and Papers, a Collection of, brought forward in the Years 1780-1, (London, 1801; published by Hatchard).

Admiralty Digest.

Adolphus's History of England.

Erodius, Rerum Judicatarum Pandectae.

Afflictis (Matthaus de), Decisiones Neapolitanæ Antiquæ et Novae.

Almon's Debates in Parliament.

Armed Neutrality, Secret History of (1792); a Translation of a former inaccurate Edition of Goertz's Work.

Bacon's (Lord) Certain Observations on a Libel published in 1592.

Essays, Of Unity in Religion.

Of a Holy War.

Baldus (de Perusio), Consilia.

Barbeyrac's Translation of Puffendorf.

Beavan's Reports.

Beawes, Lex Mercatoria.

Binney's Reports (American).

Blackstone's (Henry) Reports.

Bouvier's (American) Law Dictionary.

Bowyer's Public Law.

British and Foreign State Papers.

Brooke's Abridgment.

Brown's Civil and Admiralty Law

Brown's Parliamentary Cases.

Brumleger, Diss. de Occupatione Bellica.

Buckingham's (Duke of) Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George III. Bulstrode's Reports.

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