CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME

PART I

CHAPTER I

AMICABLE SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES

I. State Differences and their Amicable Settlement in General

SECT. PAGE

1. Legal and political International Differences [3]

2. International Law not exclusively concerned with Legal Differences [4]

3. Amicable in contradistinction to compulsive settlement of Differences [4]

II. Negotiation

4. In what Negotiation consists [6]

5. International Commissions of Inquiry [6]

6. Effect of Negotiation [9]

III. Good Offices and Mediation

7. Occasions for Good Offices and Mediation [10]

8. Right and Duty of offering, requesting, and rendering Good Offices and Mediation [10]

9. Good Offices in contradistinction to Mediation [11]

10. Good Offices and Mediation according to the Hague Arbitration Convention [12]

11. Value of Good Offices and Mediation [14]

IV. Arbitration

12. Conception of Arbitration [16]

13. Treaty of Arbitration [16]

14. Who is to Arbitrate? [17]

15. On what principles Arbitrators proceed and decide [18]

16. Binding force of Arbitral Verdict [18]

17. What differences can be decided by Arbitration [19]

18. Value of Arbitration [22]

V. Arbitration according to the Hague Convention

19. Arbitral Justice in general [23]

20. Arbitration Treaty and appointment of Arbitrators [26]

21. Procedure of and before the Arbitral Tribunal [27]

22. Arbitral Award [30]

23. Binding force of Awards [30]

24. Award binding upon Parties only [31]

25. Costs of Arbitration [32]

25a. Arbitration by Summary Procedure [32]

CHAPTER II

COMPULSIVE SETTLEMENT OF STATE DIFFERENCES

I. On Compulsive Means of Settlement of State Differences in General

26. Conception and kinds of Compulsive Means of Settlement [34]

27. Compulsive Means in contradistinction to War [34]

28. Compulsive Means in contradistinction to an Ultimatum and Demonstrations [35]

II. Retorsion

29. Conception and Character of Retorsion [36]

30. Retorsion, when justified [37]

31. Retorsion, how exercised [37]

32. Value of Retorsion [38]

III. Reprisals

33. Conception of Reprisals in contradistinction to Retorsion [38]

34. Reprisals admissible for all International Delinquencies [39]

35. Reprisals admissible for International Delinquencies only [40]

36. Reprisals, by whom performed [41]

37. Objects of Reprisals [42]

38. Positive and Negative Reprisals [44]

39. Reprisals must be proportionate [44]

40. Embargo [44]

41. Reprisals to be preceded by Negotiations and to be stopped when Reparation is made [46]

42. Reprisals during Peace in contradistinction to Reprisals during War [46]

43. Value of Reprisals [46]

IV. Pacific Blockade

44. Development of practice of Pacific Blockade [48]

45. Admissibility of Pacific Blockade [50]

46. Pacific Blockade and vessels of third States [51]

47. Pacific Blockade and vessels of the blockaded State [52]

48. Manner of Pacific Blockade [52]

49. Value of Pacific Blockade [53]

V. Intervention

50. Intervention in contradistinction to Participation in a difference [54]

51. Mode of Intervention [55]

52. Time of Intervention [55]

PART II

WAR

CHAPTER I

ON WAR IN GENERAL

I. Characteristics of War

53. War no illegality [59]

54. Conception of War [60]

55. War a contention [61]

56. War a contention between States [62]

57. War a contention between States through armed forces [63]

58. War a contention between States for the purpose of overpowering each other [67]

59. Civil War [68]

60. Guerilla War [70]

II. Causes, Kinds, and Ends of War

61. Rules of Warfare independent of Causes of War [72]

62. Causes of War [73]

63. Just Causes of War [74]

64. Causes in contradistinction to Pretexts for War [75]

65. Different kinds of War [76]

66. Ends of War [76]

III. The Laws of War

67. Origin of the Laws of War [78]

68. The latest Development of the Laws of War [79]

69. Binding force of the Laws of War [83]

IV. The Region of War

70. Region of War in contradistinction to Theatre of War [85]

71. Particular Region of every War [86]

72. Exclusion from Region of War through Neutralisation [88]

73. Asserted exclusion of the Baltic Sea from the Region of War [90]

V. The Belligerents

74. Qualification to become a Belligerent (facultas bellandi) [90]

75. Possibility in contradistinction to qualification to become a Belligerent [91]

76. Insurgents as a Belligerent Power [92]

77. Principal and accessory Belligerent Parties [93]

VI. The Armed Forces of the Belligerents

78. Regular Armies and Navies [94]

79. Non-combatant Members of Armed Forces [95]

80. Irregular Forces [96]

81. Levies en masse [97]

82. Barbarous Forces [98]

83. Privateers [99]

84. Converted Merchantmen [100]

85. The Crews of Merchantmen [104]

86. Deserters and Traitors [106]

VII. Enemy Character

87. On Enemy Character in general [106]

88. Enemy Character of Individuals [108]

89. Enemy Character of Vessels [112]

90. Enemy Character of Goods [115]

91. Transfer of Enemy Vessels [117]

92. Transfer of Goods on Enemy Vessels [119]

CHAPTER II

THE OUTBREAK OF WAR

I. Commencement of War

93. Commencement of War in General [121]

94. Declaration of War [123]

95. Ultimatum [125]

96. Initiative hostile Acts of War [126]

II. Effects of the Outbreak of War

97. General Effects of the Outbreak of War [128]

98. Rupture of Diplomatic Intercourse and Consular Activity [129]

99. Cancellation of Treaties [129]

100. Precarious position of Belligerents' subjects on Enemy Territory [131]

100a. Persona standi in judicio on Enemy Territory 133

101. Intercourse, especially Trading, between Subjects of Belligerents [135]

102. Position of Belligerents' Property in the Enemy State [139]

102a. Effect of the Outbreak of War on Merchantmen [140]

CHAPTER III

WARFARE ON LAND

I. On Land Warfare in General

103. Aims and Means of Land Warfare [144]

104. Lawful and Unlawful Practices of Land Warfare [144]

105. Objects of the Means of Warfare [145]

106. Land Warfare in contradistinction to Sea Warfare [145]

II. Violence against Enemy Persons

107. On Violence in general against Enemy Persons [146]

108. Killing and Wounding of Combatants [146]

109. Refusal of Quarter [147]

110. Lawful and Unlawful Means of killing and wounding Combatants [148]

111. Explosive Bullets [149]

112. Expanding (Dum-Dum) Bullets [149]

113. Projectiles diffusing Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases [150]

114. Violence directed from Air-Vessels [150]

115. Violence against non-combatant Members of Armed Forces [151]

116. Violence against Private Enemy Persons [151]

117. Violence against the Head of the Enemy State and against Officials in Important Positions [153]

III. Treatment of Wounded, and Dead Bodies

118. Origin of Geneva Convention [154]

119. The Wounded and the Sick [157]

120. Medical Units and Establishments, and Material [158]

121. Personnel [159]

122. Convoys of Evacuation [160]

123. Distinctive Emblem [161]

124. Treatment of the Dead [162]

124a. Application of the Geneva Convention, and Prevention of Abuses [163]

124b. General provisions of the Geneva Convention [164]

IV. Captivity

125. Development of International Law regarding Captivity [165]

126. Treatment of Prisoners of War [167]

127. Who may claim to be Prisoners of War [169]

128. Discipline [169]

129. Release on Parole [170]

130. Bureau of Information [171]

131. Relief Societies [171]

132. End of Captivity [172]

V. Appropriation and Utilisation of Public Enemy Property

133. Appropriation of all the Enemy Property no longer admissible [174]

134. Immoveable Public Property [174]

135. Immoveable Property of Municipalities, and of Religious, Charitable, and the like Institutions [175]

136. Utilisation of Public Buildings [175]

137. Moveable Public Property [176]

138. Moveable Property of Municipalities, and of Religious, Charitable, and the like Institutions [177]

139. Booty on the Battlefield [177]

VI. Appropriation and Utilisation of Private Enemy Property

140. Immoveable Private Property [179]

141. Private War Material and Means of Transport [180]

142. Works of Art and Science, Historical Monuments [180]

143. Other Private Personal Property [180]

144. Booty on the Battlefield [181]

145. Private Enemy Property brought into a Belligerent's Territory [182]

VII. Requisitions and Contributions

146. War must support War [183]

147. Requisitions in Kind, and Quartering [185]

148. Contributions [186]

VIII. Destruction of Enemy Property

149. Wanton destruction prohibited [187]

150. Destruction for the purpose of Offence and Defence [188]

151. Destruction in marching, reconnoitring, and conducting Transport [188]

152. Destruction of Arms, Ammunition, and Provisions [189]

153. Destruction of Historical Monuments, Works of Art, and the like [189]

154. General Devastation [190]

IX. Assault, Siege, and Bombardment

155. Assault, Siege, and Bombardment, when lawful [191]

156. Assault, how carried out [193]

157. Siege, how carried out [193]

158. Bombardment, how carried out [194]

X. Espionage and Treason

159. Twofold Character of Espionage and Treason [196]

160. Espionage in contradistinction to Scouting and Despatch-bearing [197]

161. Punishment of Espionage [198]

162. Treason [199]

XI. Ruses

163. Character of Ruses of War [200]

164. Different kinds of Stratagems [201]

165. Stratagems in contradistinction to Perfidy [202]

XII. Occupation of Enemy Territory

166. Occupation as an Aim of Warfare [204]

167. Occupation, when effected [206]

168. Occupation, when ended [210]

169. Rights and Duties in General of the Occupant [210]

170. Rights of the Occupant regarding the Inhabitants [211]

171. Position of Government Officials and Municipal Functionaries during Occupation [213]

172. Position of Courts of Justice during Occupation [214]

CHAPTER IV

WARFARE ON SEA

I. On Sea Warfare in General

173. Aims and Means of Sea Warfare [216]

174. Lawful and Unlawful Practices of Sea Warfare [217]

175. Objects of the Means of Sea Warfare [218]

176. Development of International Law regarding Private Property on Sea [218]

177. Declaration of Paris [220]

178. The Principle of Appropriation of Private Enemy Vessels and Enemy Goods thereon [221]

179. Impending Codification of Law of Sea Warfare [224]

II. Attack and Seizure of Enemy Vessels

180. Importance of Attack and Seizure of Enemy Vessels [225]

181. Attack, when legitimate [225]

182. Attack, how effected [226]

182a. Submarine Contact Mines [227]

183. Duty of giving Quarter [231]

184. Seizure [231]

185. Effect of Seizure [231]

186. Immunity of Vessels charged with Religious, Scientific, or Philanthropic Mission [232]

187. Immunity of Fishing-boats and small boats employed in local Trade [234]

188. Immunity of Merchantmen at the Outbreak of War on their Voyage to and from a Belligerent's Port [235]

189. Vessels in Distress [236]

190. Immunity of Hospital and Cartel Ships [236]

191. Immunity of Mail-boats and Mail-bags [236]

III. Appropriation, and Destruction of Enemy Merchantmen

192. Prize Courts [238]

193. Conduct of Prize to Port of Prize Court [241]

194. Destruction of Prize [242]

195. Ransom of Prize [245]

196. Loss of Prize, especially Recapture [246]

197. Fate of Prize [247]

198. Vessels belonging to Subjects of Neutral States, but sailing under Enemy Flag [248]

199. Effect of Sale of Enemy Vessels during War [248]

200. Goods sold by and to Enemy Subjects during War [249]

IV. Violence against Enemy Persons

201. Violence against Combatants [249]

202. Violence against Non-combatant Members of Naval Forces [250]

203. Violence against Enemy Individuals not belonging to the Naval Forces [251]

V. Treatment of Wounded and Shipwrecked

204. Adaptation of Geneva Convention to Sea Warfare [252]

205. The Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked [253]

205a. Treatment of the Dead [254]

206. Hospital Ships [254]

206a. Hospital Ships in Neutral Ports [256]

206b. Sick-Bays [257]

207. Distinctive Colour and Emblem of Hospital Ships [258]

208. Neutral Vessels assisting the Wounded, Sick, or Shipwrecked [259]

209. The Religious, Medical, and Hospital Staff [260]

209a. Application of Convention X., and Prevention of Abuses [260]

209b. General Provisions of Convention X. [261]

VI. Espionage, Treason, Ruses

210. Espionage and Treason [262]

211. Ruses [262]

VII. Requisitions, Contributions, Bombardment

212. Requisitions and Contributions upon Coast Towns [264]

213. Bombardment of the Enemy Coast [266]

VIII. Interference with Submarine Telegraph Cables

214. Uncertainty of Rules concerning Interference with Submarine Telegraph Cables [271]

CHAPTER V

NON-HOSTILE RELATIONS OF BELLIGERENTS

I. On non-hostile Relations in General between Belligerents

215. Fides etiam hosti servanda [273]

216. Different kinds of Non-hostile Relations [274]

217. Licences to Trade [275]

II. Passports, Safe-conducts, Safeguards

218. Passports and Safe-conducts [276]

219. Safeguards [277]

III. Flags of Truce

220. Meaning of Flags of Truce [278]

221. Treatment of Unadmitted Flag-bearers [279]

222. Treatment of Admitted Flag-bearers [279]

223. Abuse of Flag of Truce [281]

IV. Cartels

224. Definition and Purpose of Cartels [282]

225. Cartel Ships [283]

V. Capitulations

226. Character and Purpose of Capitulations [284]

227. Contents of Capitulations [285]

228. Form of Capitulations [286]

229. Competence to conclude Capitulations [287]

230. Violation of Capitulations [289]

VI. Armistices

231. Character and Kinds of Armistices [290]

232. Suspensions of Arms [291]

233. General Armistices [291]

234. Partial Armistices [293]

235. Competence to conclude Armistices [293]

236. Form of Armistices [294]

237. Contents of Armistices [294]

238. Commencement of Armistices [296]

239. Violation of Armistices [297]

240. End of Armistices [299]

CHAPTER VI

MEANS OF SECURING LEGITIMATE WARFARE

I. On Means in General of securing Legitimate Warfare

241. Legitimate and Illegitimate Warfare [300]

242. How Legitimate Warfare is on the whole secured [301]

II. Complaints, Good Offices and Mediation, Intervention

243. Complaints lodged with the Enemy [302]

244. Complaints lodged with Neutrals [303]

245. Good Offices and Mediation [303]

246. Intervention on the part of Neutrals [304]

III. Reprisals

247. Reprisals between Belligerents in contradistinction to Reprisals in time of Peace [305]

248. Reprisals admissible for every Illegitimate Act of Warfare [305]

249. Danger of Arbitrariness in Reprisals [306]

250. Proposed Restriction of Reprisals [308]

IV. Punishment of War Crimes

251. Conception of War Crimes [309]

252. Different kinds of War Crimes [310]

253. Violations of Rules regarding Warfare [310]

254. Hostilities in Arms by Private Individuals [312]

255. Espionage and War Treason [313]

256. Marauding [316]

257. Mode of Punishment of War Crimes [316]

V. Taking of Hostages

258. Former Practice of taking Hostages [317]

259. Modern Practice of taking Hostages [317]

VI. Compensation

259a. How the Principle of Compensation for Violations of the Laws of War arose [319]

259b. Compensation for Violations of the Hague Regulations [320]

CHAPTER VII

END OF WAR, AND POSTLIMINIUM

I. On Termination of War in General

260. War a Temporary Condition [322]

261. Three Modes of Termination of War [322]

II. Simple Cessation of Hostilities

262. Exceptional Occurrence of simple Cessation of Hostilities [323]

263. Effect of Termination of War through simple Cessation of Hostilities [324]

III. Subjugation

264. Subjugation in contradistinction to Conquest [325]

265. Subjugation a formal End of War [326]

IV. Treaty of Peace

266. Treaty of Peace the most frequent End of War [327]

267. Peace Negotiations [328]

268. Preliminaries of Peace [329]

269. Form and Parts of Peace Treaties [330]

270. Competence to conclude Peace [330]

271. Date of Peace [331]

V. Effects of Treaty of Peace

272. Restoration of Condition of Peace [332]

273. Principle of Uti Possidetis [334]

274. Amnesty [334]

275. Release of Prisoners of War [335]

276. Revival of Treaties [336]

VI. Performance of Treaty of Peace

277. Treaty of Peace, how to be carried out [337]

278. Breach of Treaty of Peace [338]

VII. Postliminium

279. Conception of Postliminium [339]

280. Postliminium according to International Law, in contradistinction to Postliminium according to Municipal Law [340]

281. Revival of the Former Condition of Things [341]

282. Validity of Legitimate Acts [342]

283. Invalidity of Illegitimate Acts [343]

284. No Postliminium after Interregnum [343]

PART III

NEUTRALITY

CHAPTER I

ON NEUTRALITY IN GENERAL

I. Development of the Institution of Neutrality

285. Neutrality not practised in Ancient Times [347]

286. Neutrality during the Middle Ages [348]

287. Neutrality during the Seventeenth Century [349]

288. Progress of Neutrality during the Eighteenth Century [350]

289. First Armed Neutrality [352]

290. The French Revolution and the Second Armed Neutrality [354]

291. Neutrality during the Nineteenth Century [357]

292. Neutrality in the Twentieth Century [359]

II. Characteristics of Neutrality

293. Conception of Neutrality [361]

294. Neutrality an Attitude of Impartiality [362]

295. Neutrality an Attitude creating Rights and Duties [363]

296. Neutrality an Attitude of States [363]

297. No Cessation of Intercourse during Neutrality between Neutrals and Belligerents [365]

298. Neutrality an Attitude during War (Neutrality in Civil War) [365]

299. Neutrality to be recognised by the Belligerents [367]

III. Different Kinds of Neutrality

300. Perpetual Neutrality [368]

301. General and Partial Neutrality [369]

302. Voluntary and Conventional Neutrality [369]

303. Armed Neutrality [369]

304. Benevolent Neutrality [370]

305. Perfect and Qualified Neutrality [370]

306. Some Historical Examples of Qualified Neutrality [371]

IV. Commencement and End of Neutrality

307. Neutrality commences with Knowledge of the War [373]

308. Commencement of Neutrality in Civil War [374]

309. Establishment of Neutrality by Declarations [374]

310. Municipal Neutrality Laws [375]

311. British Foreign Enlistment Act [375]

312. End of Neutrality [377]

CHAPTER II

RELATIONS BETWEEN BELLIGERENTS AND NEUTRALS

I. Rights and Duties deriving from Neutrality

313. Conduct in General of Neutrals and Belligerents [378]

314. What Rights and Duties of Neutrals and of Belligerents there are [378]

315. Rights and Duties of Neutrals contested [379]

316. Contents of Duty of Impartiality [381]

317. Duty of Impartiality continuously growing more intense [382]

317a. Neutrality Conventions of the Second Peace Conference [383]

318. Contents of Duty of Belligerents to treat Neutrals in accordance with their Impartiality [384]

319. Contents of Duty not to suppress Intercourse between Neutrals and the Enemy [385]

II. Neutrals and Military Operations

320. Hostilities by and against Neutrals [386]

321. Furnishing Troops and Men-of-War to Belligerents [389]

322. Subjects of Neutrals fighting among Belligerent Forces [390]

323. Passage of Troops and War Material through Neutral Territory [391]

324. Passage of Wounded through Neutral Territory [392]

325. Passage of Men-of-War [393]

326. Occupation of Neutral Territory by Belligerents [394]

327. Prize Courts on Neutral Territory [395]

328. Belligerent's Prizes in Neutral Ports [395]

III. Neutrals and Military Preparations

329. DepĂ´ts and Factories on Neutral Territory [397]

330. Levy of Troops, and the like [398]

331. Passage of Bodies of Men intending to Enlist [399]

332. Organisation of Hostile Expeditions [400]

333. Use of Neutral Territory as Base of Naval Operations [400]

334. Building and Fitting-out of Vessels intended for Naval Operations [405]

335. The Alabama Case and the Three Rules of Washington [406]

IV. Neutral Asylum to Land Forces and War Material

336. On Neutral Asylum in General [409]

337. Neutral Territory and Prisoners of War [410]

338. Fugitive Soldiers on Neutral Territory [413]

339. Neutral Territory and Fugitive Troops [413]

340. Neutral Territory and Non-combatant Members of Belligerent Forces [415]

341. Neutral Territory and War Material of Belligerents [415]

V. Neutral Asylum to Naval Forces

342. Asylum to Naval Forces in contradistinction to Asylum to Land Forces [417]

343. Neutral Asylum to Naval Forces Optional [417]

344. Asylum to Naval Forces in Distress [418]

345. Exterritoriality of Men-of-War during Asylum [419]

346. Facilities to Men-of-War during Asylum [420]

347. Abuse of Asylum to be prohibited [420]

348. Neutral Men-of-War as an Asylum [423]

348a. Neutral Territory and Shipwrecked Soldiers [424]

VI. Supplies and Loans to Belligerents

349. Supply on the part of Neutrals [426]

350. Supply on the part of Subjects of Neutrals [427]

351. Loans and Subsidies on the part of Neutrals [430]

352. Loans and Subsidies on the part of Subjects of Neutrals [430]

VII. Services to Belligerents

353. Pilotage [432]

354. Transport on the part of Neutrals [433]

355. Transport on the part of Neutral Merchantmen and by neutral rolling stock [434]

356. Information regarding Military and Naval Operations [434]

VIII. Violation of Neutrality

357. Violation of Neutrality in the narrower and in the wider sense of the Term [438]

358. Violation in contradistinction to End of Neutrality [439]

359. Consequences of Violations of Neutrality [439]

360. Neutrals not to acquiesce in Violations of Neutrality committed by a Belligerent [440]

361. Case of the General Armstrong [442]

362. Mode of exacting Reparation from Belligerents for Violations of Neutrality [442]

363. Negligence on the part of Neutrals [444]

363a. Laying of Submarine Contact Mines by Neutrals [445]

IX. Right of Angary

364. The Obsolete Right of Angary [446]

365. The Modern Right of Angary [447]

366. Right of Angary concerning Neutral Rolling Stock [448]

367. Right of Angary not deriving from Neutrality [449]

CHAPTER III

BLOCKADE

I. Conception of Blockade

368. Definition of Blockade [450]

369. Blockade, Strategic and Commercial [452]

370. Blockade to be Universal [452]

371. Blockade, Outwards and Inwards [453]

372. What Places can be Blockaded [453]

373. Blockade of International Rivers [454]

374. Justification of Blockade [455]

II. Establishment of Blockade

375. Competence to establish Blockade [456]

376. Declaration and Notification of Blockade [456]

377. Length of Time for Egress of Neutral Vessels [459]

378. End of Blockade [460]

III. Effectiveness of Blockade

379. Effective in contradistinction to Fictitious Blockade [461]

380. Condition of Effectiveness of Blockade [461]

381. Amount of Danger which creates Effectiveness [464]

382. Cessation of Effectiveness [464]

IV. Breach of Blockade

383. Definition of Breach of Blockade [466]

384. No Breach without Notice of Blockade [466]

385. The former practice as to what constitutes an Attempt to break Blockade [468]

385a. What constitutes an Attempt to break Blockade according to the Declaration of London [470]

386. When Ingress is not considered Breach of Blockade [472]

387. When Egress is not considered Breach of Blockade [473]

388. Passage through Unblockaded Canal no Breach of Blockade [474]

V. Consequences of Breach of Blockade

389. Capture of Blockade-running Vessels [475]

390. Penalty for Breach of Blockade [476]

CHAPTER IV

CONTRABAND

I. Conception of Contraband

391. Definition of Contraband of War [480]

392. Absolute and conditional Contraband, and free Articles [481]

393. Articles absolutely Contraband [483]

394. Articles conditionally Contraband [485]

395. Hostile Destination essential to Contraband [490]

396. Free Articles [492]

396a. Articles destined for the use of the carrying Vessel, or to aid the Wounded [493]

397. Contraband Vessels [494]

II. Carriage of Contraband

398. Carriage of Contraband Penal by the Municipal Law of Belligerents [495]

399. Direct Carriage of Contraband [497]

400. Circuitous Carriage of Contraband [499]

401. Indirect Carriage of Contraband (Doctrine of Continuous Transports) [500]

402. The Case of the Bundesrath [502]

403. Continental support to the Doctrine of Continuous Transports [504]

403a. Partial Recognition by the Declaration of London of the Doctrine of Continuous Voyages [505]

III. Consequences of Carriage of Contraband

404. Capture for Carriage of Contraband [506]

405. Penalty for Carriage of Contraband according to the Practice hitherto prevailing [508]

406. Penalty according to the Declaration of London for Carriage of Contraband [511]

406a. Seizure of Contraband without Seizure of the Vessel [513]

CHAPTER V

UNNEUTRAL SERVICE

I. The Different Kinds of Unneutral Service

407. Unneutral Service in general [515]

408. Carriage of Persons for the Enemy [517]

409. Transmission of Intelligence to the Enemy [521]

410. Unneutral Service creating Enemy Character [524]

II. Consequences of Unneutral Service

411. Capture for Unneutral Service [526]

412. Penalty for Unneutral Service [527]

413. Seizure of Enemy Persons and Despatches without Seizure of Vessel [530]

CHAPTER VI

VISITATION, CAPTURE, AND TRIAL OF NEUTRAL VESSELS

I. Visitation

414. Conception of Right of Visitation [533]

415. Right of Visitation, by whom, when, and where exercised [534]

416. Only Private Vessels may be Visited [535]

417. Vessels under Convoy [535]

418. No Universal Rules regarding Mode of Visitation [537]

419. Stopping of Vessels for the Purpose of Visitation [538]

420. Visit [538]

421. Search [539]

422. Consequences of Resistance to Visitation [540]

423. What constitutes Resistance [541]

424. Sailing under Enemy Convoy equivalent to Resistance 542

425. Resistance by Neutral Convoy [543]

426. Deficiency of Papers [543]

427. Spoliation, Defacement, and Concealment of Papers [544]

428. Double and False Papers [545]

II. Capture

429. Grounds and Mode of Capture [546]

430. Effect of Capture of Neutral Vessels, and their Conduct to Port [546]

431. Destruction of Neutral Prizes [547]

432. Ransom and Recapture of Neutral Prizes [551]

433. Release after Capture [551]

III. Trial of captured Neutral Vessels

434. Trial of Captured Vessels a Municipal Matter [553]

435. Result of Trial [555]

436. Trial after Conclusion of Peace [555]

437. Protests and Claims of Neutrals after Trial [557]

CHAPTER VII

THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE COURT

I. Proposals for International Prize Courts

438. Early Projects [559]

439. German Project of 1907 [561]

440. British Project of 1907 [562]

441. Convention XII. of the Second Peace Conference [563]

II. Constitution and Competence of the International Prize Court

442. Personnel [565]

443. Deciding Tribunal [566]

444. Administrative Council and International Bureau [569]

445. Agents, Counsel, Advocates, and Attorneys [569]

446. Competence [569]

447. What Law to be applied [571]

III. Procedure in the International Prize Court

448. Entering of Appeal [572]

449. Pleadings and Discussion [574]

450. Judgment [575]

451. Expenses and Costs [576]

IV. Action in Damages instead of Appeal

452. Reason for Action in Damages instead of Appeal [577]

453. Procedure if Action for Damages is brought [578]

APPENDICES

I. Declaration of Paris of 1856 [583]

II. Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868 [584]

III. Declaration concerning Expanding Bullets of 1899 [585]

IV. Declaration concerning the Diffusion of Asphyxiating Gases of 1899 [586]

V. Geneva Convention of 1906 [587]

VI. Final Act of the Second Hague Peace Conference of 1907 [591]

I. Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes [592]

II. Convention respecting the Limitation of the Employment of Force for the Recovery of Contract Debts [601]

III. Convention relative to the Opening of Hostilities [602]

IV. Convention concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land [603]

V. Convention respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in War on Land [609]

VI. Convention relative to the Status of Merchantmen at the Outbreak of Hostilities [612]

VII. Convention relative to the Conversion of Merchantmen into Men-of-War [613]

VIII. Convention relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines [614]

IX. Convention respecting Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War [616]

X. Convention for the Adaptation of the Principles of the Geneva Convention to Maritime Warfare [617]

XI. Convention relative to certain Restrictions on the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Maritime War [621]

XII. Convention concerning the Establishment of an International Prize Court [622]

XIII. Convention concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Maritime War [629]

XIV. Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Discharge of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons [632]

XV. Draft Convention concerning the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court [632]

VII. Declaration of London of 1909 (including the Report of the Drafting Committee) [637]

VIII. Additional Protocol, of 1910, to the Hague Convention concerning the Establishment of an International Prize Court [665]

IX. Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870 [667]

X. The Naval Prize Act, 1864 [674]

XI. The Prize Courts Act, 1894 [682]

XII. Naval Prize Bill of 1911 [683]

XIII. Geneva Convention Act, 1911 [690]

INDEX [691]