[PART V]

INTERNATIONAL LAW OF NEUTRALITY

[CHAPTER XXII]

DEFINITION AND HISTORY

[§ 120. Definition]

Neutrality is the relation which exists between states which take no part in the war and the belligerents. Impartial treatment of the belligerents is not necessarily neutrality. The modern idea of neutrality demands an entire absence of participation, direct or indirect, however impartial it may be.