International Law Studies

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - International law
 

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Page 95 - The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited.
Page 43 - Powers, to the end that this prohibition shall be universally accepted as a part of international law binding alike the conscience and...
Page 19 - Conditional contraband is not liable to capture, except when found on board a vessel bound for territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or for the armed forces of the enemy, and when it is not to be discharged in an intervening neutral port.
Page 93 - The contracting powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference, the discharge of projectiles and explosives from balloons or by other new methods of a similar nature.
Page 22 - Now, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: — 1. During the present hostilities the provisions of the Convention known as the Declaration of London shall, subject to the exclusion of the lists of contraband and non-contraband, and to the modifications hereinafter set out, be adopted and put in force...
Page 54 - The signatory powers recognize the practical impossibility of using submarines as commerce destroyers without violating, as they were violated in the recent war of 1914^1918, the requirements universally accepted by civilized nations for the protection of the lives of neutrals and noncombatants...
Page 11 - Springbok; that the voyage from London to the blockaded port was, as to cargo, both -in law and in the intent of the parties, one voyage; and that the liability to condemnation, if captured during any part of that voyage, attached to the cargo from the time of sailing.
Page 61 - He maintains— that the right of visiting and searching merchant ships upon the high seas, whatever be the ships, whatever be the cargoes, whatever be the destinations, is an incontestable right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of a belligerent nation.
Page 61 - A merchant vessel must be ordered to submit to visit and search to determine its character before it can be seized.
Page 60 - The Signatory Powers invite all other civilized Powers to express their assent to the foregoing statement of established law so that there may be a clear public understanding throughout the world of the standards of conduct by which the public opinion of the world is to pass judgment upon future belligerents.

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