CONTENTS.

PART I.

The pages referred to are those between brackets [ ].

INTRODUCTION. FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE. Pp. 1-10.

1. The Laws which govern International Relations.

2. The Subjects of these Laws.

3. The Objects of these Laws.

4. Certain Subjects requiring a particular Consideration.

5. Legal Means of enforcing International Public Rights.

6. Jus Privatum inter Gentes, or Comity.

CHAPTER II.

PLAN OF THE WORK. Pp. 10-14.

CHAPTER III.

SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Pp. 14-29.

1. Natural Law.

2. Revealed Law.

3. Custom.

4. Treaty.

5. Divine and Natural Law. How applied to Christian and Heathen States.
Effect of Christianity upon International Law.

Application of Natural and Revealed Law to States. Use of the Roman Law.

CHAPTER V.

CONSENT OF NATIONS. Pp. 37-43.

How manifested. By positive Convention. By Custom.

JULY, 1854.-3

CHAPTER VI.

HISTORY. Pp. 43-58.

Repositories of International Law. History. Treaties. Proclamations. Marine

Ordinances. Decisions of Prize Courts.

CHAPTER VII.

WRITERS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW. Pp. 58-64.

Their Authority and Use.

CHAPTER VIII.

RECAPITULATION OF SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Pp. 64-72.

Instance of the Application of the Law as derived from its various Sources.

CHAPTER IX.

OBJECTION THAT THERE IS NO LAW BECAUSE NO SUPERIOR. Pp. 72-75.

Not tenable. Confusion of Ideas. All moral Obligations equally Perfect,
although Means of compelling Performance may be Imperfect. Inter-
national Law recognised as a Matter of Fact. Recognition of it incorporated
into Municipal Law of many States.

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. STATES. Pp. 75-88.

What is a State. Barbary States. The Ottoman Porte.

B. States united reali unione.

y. Case of Poland.

8. States united personali unione.

E. Protected States retaining International Personality.
7. Protected States having lost International Personality.

Ionian Isles.

6. European Free Towns and Republics.

1. The case of Belgium.

*. The case of Greece.

STATES UNDER A FEDERAL UNION. Pp. 120-122.

1. Germanic Confederation.

2. Swiss Confederation.

3. North American United Republics.

4. South American United Republics.

CHAPTER IV.

GERMAN CONFEDERATION. SWISS CONFEDERATION. Pp. 122-138.

History and Character of.

CHAPTER V.

UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN

REPUBLICS. Pp. 138-147.

History and Character of.

CHAPTER VI.

EXTINCTION OF A STATE. P. 147.

A State may lose its International Personality. How.

CHAPTER VII.

CHANGES IN A STATE. Pp. 148-159.

Doctrine of Roman Jurists-of Savigny; Hooker; Grotius; De Mably;

D'Aguesseau; Montesquieu; Heineccius; Vattel; Bynkershoek; Kent;

Wheaton; Puffendorf;-all support the Doctrine that Changes in a State

do not affect previously-existing International Obligations. If the Terri-

tory of a State be divided, Rights and Duties are apportioned. Opinion of

Kent and Story. Recent Case of Belgium.

PART III.

CHAPTER I.

OBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Pp. 159-162.

1. Rights stricti juris. 2. Usages of Comity. Importance of observing Dis-

tinctions between.

CHAPTER II.

RIGHTS OF INDEPENDENCE AND EQUALITY. Pp. 162-164.

I. Rights of Independence.

I. Free Choice, &c. of Government. 2. Territorial Inviolability. 3. Self-

Preservation. 4. Commerce. 5. Right of Acquisition. 6. Juris-

diction over Persons and Things within, and, by way of Exception,

without her Territory. Christian Strangers in Mahometan Territories.

Extradition of Criminals.

II. Limitation of foregoing Rights.

Doctrine of Intervention.

III. Rights of Equality.

1. Right of protecting Subjects abroad. 2. Rights to Recognition.
3. Right to external Marks of Honour. 4. Right to make Treaties.

CHAPTER III.

RIGHT TO A FREE CHOICE OF GOVERNMENT. P. 164.

CHAPTER IV.

TERRITORIAL INVIOLABILITY. NATIONAL POSSESSIONS. Pp. 165–167.

1. Rivers and Lakes. 2. Open Sea. 3. Narrow Seas. 4. British Seas. 5. Straits.

6. Portions of the Sea.

PROPERTY OF A STATE. RIVERS. Pp. 167-194.

General Law respecting. Stipulations in the Treaty of Vienna as to free Navi-
gation of great Rivers. The Scheldt. The Rhine and Tributaries. The
Vistula. The Douro. The Danube. The Mississippi. The St. Lawrence.
The open Sea. Nootka Sound. The North Sea. Rights of Fishing.

CHAPTER VI.

NARROW SEAS, AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE OCEAN. Pp. 194-200.

British Channel. Mare liberum of Grotius. Mare clausum of Selden. Hol-
land. William III. Sir L. Jenkins. Bynkershoek. Lord Stowell.

CHAPTER VII.

NARROW SEAS. STRAITS. Pp. 200-210.

British Channel. Great and Little Belt. Straits of Messina. Dardanelles.
Hellespont. Fisheries.

Rule of Territory within Marine League or Cannon shot. Hovering or Revenue
Laws. Landlocked Seas.