A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-general, Volume 1

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Francis Wharton
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - International law

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Contents

WHEN HARM IS DONE BY ORDER OF FOREIGY SOVEREIGN SUCH SOVEREIGN IS THE ACCOUNTABLE PARTY 21
64
TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES DETERMINED BY POLITICAL NOT JUDICIAL ACTION 22
68
CHAPTER II
70
STRAITS 29
77
RIVERS 30
81
XXXIII
84
LAKES AND INLAND SEAS 31
99
MARGINAL BELT OF SEA 32
100
SELFCONSTITUTED MISSIONS ILLEGAL
109
PRESENTS NOT ALLOWED
110
ELIGIBILITY OF
113
APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFYING OF
114
EXEQUATUR
115
DISMISSAL
116
SHIP NATIONALIZED BY FLAG 33
117
VICECONSULS AND CONSULAR AGENTS
118
NOT TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS
119
PRIVILEGE AS TO PROCESS
120
OTHER PRIVILEGES
121
RIGHT TO GIVE ASYLUM AND PROTECTION
122
CRIMES AT SEA SUBJECT TO COUNTRY OF FLAG
123
PORT JURISDICTION OF SEAMEN AND SHIPPING
124
JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS IN SEMICIVILIZED LANDS
125
PORTS OPEN TO ALL NATIONS 34
127
MERCHANT VESSELS SUBJECT TO POLICE LAW OF PORT 35
128
NEGOTIATION
130
RATIFICATION AND APPROVAL 1 As to treaty making power
131
WHEN TREATY GOES INTO EFFECT
132
CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION
133
FAVORED NATION
134
EFFECT OF
135
CRIMES ON SUCH VESSels how far SUBJECT TO PORT LAWS 35α XIII NOT SO AS TO PUBLIC SHIPS 36
136
EFFECT OF
137
TREATIES WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL ARE THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND BUT MAY BE MUNICIPALLY MODIFIED BY SUBSEQUE...
138
JUDICIARY CANNOT CONTROL EXECUTIVE IN TREATY MAKING
139
OPPRESSIVE PORT EXACTIONS 37
140
ARMING MERCHANT VESSELS 39
167
NEUTRalized waters 40
169
CHAPTER III
171
facie proof of abandonment
179
TERRITORIAL CHANGE
187
DOMICIL
198
CORPORATIONS
207
5 Mediation 49
211
2 Foreign claimant must appear through diplomatic agency
214
3 Department has control of case and may arbitrate compromise
220
6 Necessity as where marauders can be checked only by such intervention 50
221
a Amelia Island
222
CLAIMS BASED ON MOB INJURIES
226
b Pensacola and Florida posts 50b c Steamboat Caroline
227
d Greytown 50d e Border raiders
229
lating international obligations 230a
232
7 Explorations in barbarous lands e g the Congo 51
234
8 Intercession in extreme cases of political offenders 52
237
2 AustriaHungary 141
240
10 Good offices for missionaries abroad 54
242
8 No national discrimination as to claimant
244
PRACTICE AS TO SURRENDER
280
EFFECT OF GUARANTEE OF UNDER TREATY
290
SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF DOCTRINE 1 Mexico 58
300
NORTHEAST ATLANTIC FISHERIES
301
9 Great Britain and not her provinces is the sovereign to be dealt with
308
WITHDRAWAL OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
317
AS A BELLIGERENT RIGHT
325
VII
331
APPLICATION OF TO ENEMYS PROPERTY
338
2 Peru 59
340
WHO ARE ENTITLED TO BELLIGERENT RIGHTS
350
MUNICIPAL DEFINITIONS NOT EXTRATERRITORIAL 382
352
WHAT ESSENTIAL
359
3 Cuba 60
362
DUTY OF NEUTRAL AS TO BLOCKADE Running
365
RESTRICTIONS OF NEUTRAL
395
4 San Domingo and Hayti 61
413
5 Danish West Indies
416
Sandwich Islands 62
417
7 Samoa Caroline and other Pacific Islands 63
436
8 Corea 64
442
9 Falkland Islands 65
443
10 Liberia 66
445
11 China 67
447
6 China 144
469
HOW FAR DISPATCHES AND DIPLOMAtic agenTS ARE CONTRABAND 374
478
12 Japan 68
492
7 Colombia and New Granada 145
501
RECOGNITION OF BELLIGERENCY 69
513
RECOGNITION OF SOVEREIGNTY 70
523
SUCH RECOGNITION DETERMINABLE BY EXECUTIVE 71
551
ACCRETION NOT COLONIZATION THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
553
CHAPTER IV
581
DIPLOMATIC GRADES 88
621
CITIZENS OF COUNTRY OF RECEPTION NOT ACCEPTABLE
628
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE CONFIDENTIAL EXCEPT BY ORDER OF DE PARTMENT 89
631
1 Confined to official business
632
2 Usually in writing 89b DIPLOMATIC AGENTS TO ACT UNDER INSTRUCTIONS 90
633
COMMUNICATIONS FROM FOREIGNERS ONLY TO BE RECEIVED THROUGH DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES 91
635
DIPLOMATIC AGENTS PROTECTED FROM PROCESS 1 Who are so privileged 92
638
2 Illegality of process against 93
644
3 Exemption from criminal prosecution
646
4 What attack on a minister is an international offence
648
AND FROM PERSONAL INDIGNITY 94
649
AND FROM TAXES AND IMPOSTS 97
651
PROPERTY PROTECTED 96
654
FREE TRANSIT AND COMMUNICATION WITH SECURED 97
655
PRIVILeged from TESTIFYING 98
667
CANNOT BECOME BUSINESS AGENTS 99
670
NOR REPRESENT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 100
671
SHOULD RESIDE AT CAPITAL 101
672
DUTIES AS TO ARCHIVES 103
673
RIGHT OF PROTECTION AND ASYLUM 104
675
MAY EXTEND PROTECTION TO CITIZENS OF FRIENDLY COUNTRIES ŭ 105
696
10 France
755
a Treaty of 1778 148
775

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