Art. 46. The conditions of capitulations shall be settled by the contracting parties.
These conditions should not be contrary to military honor.
When once settled by a convention they should be scrupulously observed by both sides.
Chapter III. Of Armistices
Art. 47. An armistice suspends warlike operations by a mutual agreement between the belligerents. Should the duration thereof not be fixed, the belligerents may resume operations at any moment, provided, however, that proper warning be given to the enemy, in accordance with the conditions of the armistice.
Art. 48. An armistice may be general or local. The former suspends all warlike operations between the belligerents; the latter only those between certain portions of the belligerent armies, and within a fixed radius.
Art. 49. An armistice should be notified officially and without delay to the competent authorities, and to the troops. Hostilities are suspended immediately after the notification.
Art. 50. It rests with the contracting parties to define in the clauses of the armistice the relations which shall exist between the populations.
Art. 51. The violation of the armistice by either of the parties gives to the other the right of terminating it.
Art. 52. The violation of the clauses of an armistice by private individuals, on their own personal initiative, only affords the right of demanding the punishment of the guilty persons, and, if there is occasion for it, an indemnity for losses sustained.