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Disputes. Amicable Arrangement and Compromise............. 202-204

§ 158. Measures viâ amicabili and viâ facta. The latter often preferred to the former. Physiological causes of the inclination to war. Mediation. Principal duty of a mediator. Arbitration. Halleck's Opinion with regard to Mediation and Arbitration. Rules as proposed by Halleck.

§ 159. Political Conferences and International Congresses. Verification of the Pleins-pouvoirs. The Protocols or ProcèsVerbaux. Halleck's Statement with regard to Congresses and Conferences.

204-210

210-214

§ 160. Rules proposed by the Institut de Droit International, for the pacific solution of international differences................. 214–219

CHAPTER XXV.

THE CONDITION BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR.
Measures of constraint falling short of war.
Retortion and Reprisal.

§ 161. The Right of Redress. General principles of the right to apply measures of Constraint.....

220-221

§ 162. Conditions for the Legality of Measures of Cons

221-223

§ 163. Retortion or Retaliation.

traint.

§ 164. Difference between Retortion and Reprisal. Woolsey's definition. Halleck's Opinion with regard to Retortion and Retaliation.

§ 165. Different acts of Reprisal short of war, admissible by International Law. Special Reprisal (Lettres de Représailles). General Reprisal. Passive and Active Reprisal. Seizure. Halleck's Opinion. Opinion of Sir Robert Phillimore on Reprisal.

§ 166. Embargo. Mr. Hall's definition. Judgment of Lord Stowell. Judge Kent's Opinion. Dr. Woolsey's Opinion. Halleck's Statement.

223

223-227

227-236

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236-240

§ 167. Pacific Blockade.

240-241

§ 168. Bombardment as Reprisal short of War.

241

WAR AND ITS APPURTENANCES.

CHAPRER XXVI.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS WITH REGARD TO WAR BETWEEN
NATIONS. PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW of War.

§ 169. War as an abnormal social condition. Origin of Pages. the Law of War. Origin of the obligations of neutrals and of the belligerent right of search and adjudication.

CHAPTER XXVII.

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THE CONDITION OF WAR and its effeCT ON PRIVATE
INDIVIDUALS OF THE BELLIGERENT STATES.

§ 170. War affects, in a direct manner, States only, not individuals................................

§ 171. The place of war in International Law. Mr. Hall's statement.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF WAR. LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL

WARS.

§ 172. The main or natural object of war. Causes of Justifiable and unjust wars. Dr. Woolsey's statement. Different kinds of war. Halleck's statement.

war.

CHAPTER XXIX.
DECLARATION OF WAR.

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before the comRecall of the amDr. Woolsey's the declaration

§ 173. The formality of declaring war mencement of hostilities. The ultimatum. bassador or negotiator. Proclamation of war. opinion. Mr. Hall's statement with regard to of war.

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§ 174. The authority competent to declare war.. § 175. Effect of the declaration of war on mutual peaceable intercourse between private individuals of belligerent States. Dr. Woolsey's statement.

CHAPTER XXX.

THE ENEMY AND HIS ALLIES.

245-246

247-250

250-252

253-261

262-267

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268-271

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