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Page 133 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 93 - Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been established and can be exercised.
Page 33 - Law defines independence as the right of a state to manage all its affairs, whether external or internal, without interference from other states, as long as it respects the corresponding right possessed by each fully-sovereign member of the family of nations.
Page 15 - A state may be defined as A political community, the members of which are bound together by the tie of common subjection to some central authority, whose commands the bulk of them habitually obey.
Page 30 - ... facts of history. Its accuracy makes it an authority for the student and the lawyer ; while its graceful and intellectual style adapts it to the needs of the general reader. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with the Nature and History of International Law, and the others set forth the Law of Peace, the Law of War, and the Law of Neutrality.
Page 92 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Page 136 - Now, in order to justify a condemnation for breach of blockade three things must be proved: 1st, the existence of an actual blockade; 2dly, the knowledge of the party ; 3dly, some act of violation, either by going in or coming out with a cargo laden after the commencement of the blockade.
Page 50 - The next subjects that demand attention are those connected with THE RIGHT OF INNOCENT PASSAGE. * This may be defined as the right of free passage through the territorial waters of friendly States when they form a channel of communication between two portions of the high seas. There can be no doubt...
Page 51 - In view of the public importance of the questions raised by their petitions and of the duty which rests on the courts, in time of war as well as in time of peace, to preserve unimpaired the constitutional safeguards of civil liberty, and because in our opinion the public interest required that we consider and decide those questions without any avoidable delay, we directed that petitioners...