The Sovereignty of the Sea / An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters

by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

[1097] Riquelme, op. cit. [See p. 569].

[1098] Fifteenth Ann. Rep. Assoc. for Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations,. 18, 22; Seventeenth, ibid., 302; Annuaire de l’Institut, xi. 151.

[1099] Fifteenth Rep., ibid., 84, 121; Ann. de l’Institut for 1894. Customs Act of Canada, 49 Vict., c. 32, s. 21.

[1100] 26 Geo. II.; 6 Geo. IV., c. 78.

[1101] Mer Territoriale, 222; and see pp. 551, 560, 564.

[1102] Twiss, op. cit., 261-264; Phillimore, Commentaries, i. 236; Kent, loc. cit.; Wheaton, loc. cit.; Hall, loc. cit. The latter author states that they “repose on an agreement which, though tacit, is universal,” and that “no civilised country encourages offences against the laws of a foreign state when it sees that the laws are just and necessary.”

[1103] De la Liberté des Mers, ou le Gouvernement Anglois devoilé, 1798.

[1104] La Mer Libre, La Mer Fermée, 1803.

[1105] Institutions du Droit de la Nature et des Gens.

[1106] De la Liberté des Mers.