Elements of International Law

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Little, Brown,, 1857 - International law - 728 pages

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Contents

Personal union under the same sovereign
16
Supreme federal government or compositive State
22
CHAPTER II
27
11
36
National proprietary rights
42
14
43
27
55
CHAPTER I
85
Rights of sovereign States with respect to one another
92
tion of 1830
105
Independence of the State in respect to its internal government
106
Independence of every State in respect to the choice of its rulers
108
CHAPTER II
112
Conflict of laws
113
Lex loci ræi sitæ
116
Droit daubaine
117
Lex domicilii
119
Personal status
121
Lex loci contractus
140
Lex fori
143
Jurisdiction of the State over its public and private vessels on the high seas
158
Consular jurisdiction
167
Independence of the State as to its judicial power
168
Extent of the judicial power over criminal offences
174
Extraterritorial operation of a criminal sentence
181
Piracy under the law of nations
184
Extent of the judicial power as to property within the territory
196
Conclusiveness of foreign sentences in rem
197
Extent of the judicial power over foreigners residing within the terri tory
200
Distinction between the rule of decision and rule of proceeding in cases of contract
202
Conclusiveness of foreign sentences in personal actions
205
CHAPTER III
210
Controversy respecting the dominion of the seas
236
Navigation of the St Lawrence
263
CHAPTER I
273
Letters of credence
282
Audience of the sovereign or chief magistrate
283
Exceptions to the general rule of exemption from the local jurisdiction
284
26
286
Exemption of the ministers house and property
287
Duties and taxes
299
Messengers and couriers
300
Public minister passing through the territory of another State than that to which he is accredited
301
Freedom of religious worship
304
Termination of public mission
306
Letter of recall
315
CHAPTER II
317
Cartels truces and capitulations
318
Full power and ratification
319
The treatymaking power dependent on the municipal constitution
328
Auxiliary legislative measures how far necessary to the validity of a treaty
329
Freedom of consent how far necessary to the validity of treaties
331
Transitory conventions perpetual in their nature
332
Treaties the operation of which cease in certain cases
342
Treaties revived and confirmed on the renewal of peace
343
Treaties of guaranty
344
Treaties of alliance
345
National character of ships
413
Enemys property how far subject to capture and confiscation
419
Ravaging the enemys territory when lawful
420
Distinction between private property taken at sea or on land
429
What persons are authorized to engage in hostilities against the enemy
430
Privateers
431
Title to property captured in war
432
Recaptures and salvage
437
Validity of maritime captures determined in the courts of the captors country
456
Jurisdiction of the courts of the captor how far exclusive
458
Condemnation by consular tribunal sitting in the neutral country
460
Title to real property how transferred in war Jus postliminii
469
Good faith towards enemies
470
Power to conclude an armistice
471
Rules for interpreting conventions of truce
472
Recommencement of hostilities on the expiration of truce
473
Passports safeconducts and licenses
475
Licenses to trade with the enemy
476
Authority to grant licenses
477
Ransom of captured property
478
CHAPTER III
480
Different species of neutrality
481
Imperfect neutrality
482
Neutrality modified by a limited alliance with one of the belligerent parties
489
Qualified neutrality arising out of antecedent treaty stipulations admit ting the armed vessels and prizes of one belligerent into the neutral ports whilst ...
490
Hostilities within the territory of the neutral State
491
Captures within the maritime territorial jurisdiction or by vessels stationed within it or hovering on the coasts
492
capture
497
Right of asylum in neutral ports dependent on the consent of the neu tral State
498
Arming and equipping vessels and enlisting men within the neutral territory by either belligerent unlawful
499
Prohibition enforced by municipal statutes
500
Immunity of the neutual territory how far it extends to neutral vessels on the high seas
503
Usage of nations subjecting enemys goods in neutral vessels to capture
504
Neutral vessels laden with enemy goods subject to confiscation by the ordinances of some States
505
The two maxims of free ships free goods and enemy ships enemy goods not necessarily connected
507
Conventional law as to free ships free goods
508
Contraband of war 535
516
Transportation of military persons and despatches in the enemys service
562
Penalty for the carrying of contraband
567
Rule of the war of 1756
572
Breach of blockade
581
Right of visitation and search
587
Forcible resistance by an enemy master
592
Right of a neutral to carry his goods in an armed enemy vessel
593
Neutral vessels under enemys convoy liable to capture
594
CHAPTER IV
607
Power of making treaties of peace limited in its extent
608
Effects of a treaty of peace
610
Uti possidetis the basis of every treaty of peace unless the contrary be expressed
612
From what time the treaty of peace commences its operation
613
In what condition things taken are to be restored
615
Disputes respecting its breach how adjusted
616
Additional note on naturalization by the editor
625
Act to remodel the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States
634
Vessels chased into the neutral territory and there captured 493
705
1 Usage of permanent diplomatic missions
714

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