Manual of International Law: For the Use of Navies, Colonies and Consulates: Volume 1 of Manual of International Law for the Use of Navies, Colonies and Consulates
Manual of International Law: For the Use of Navies, Colonies and Consulates: Volume 1 of Manual of International Law for the Use of Navies, Colonies and Consulates
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...belligerent, which is prejudicial to the operations of a country at war, not being in itself wrong, even in the qualified sense in which non-neutral national acts can be said to be wrong, the belligerent right to interfere with it is theoretically a derogation from the strict rights of the neutral State, which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...belligerent, which is prejudicial to the operations of a country at war, not being in itself wrong, even in the qualified sense in which non-neutral national acts can be said to be wrong, the belligerent right to interfere with it is theoretically a derogation from the strict rights of the neutral State, which refrains in so far as its subjects are affected by the belligerent from protecting them in the performance of innocent acts. The justification of this usage lies in its convenience." " By existing custom the belligerent has the right of hindering neutral commerce when it is noxious to him, either because it supplies his enemy with articles of direct use in war, or because it diminishes the stress which he puts upon his enemy; or even because it is tainted by association with hostile property. In all these cases the neutral trader is left face to face with the belligerent Nation. It alone determines whether he has infringed its privileges, and in its Courts alone can he in the first instance find a remedy for wrongs done to him by its agents. The neutral State cannot interfere until the belligerent has overstepped the boundary of his rights. When he has done this by rendering unjust decisions, the question transfers itself to another head of International Law. The belligerent has practically committed an act of war, and the neutral State can demand and exact such reparation as may be needful. It appears then, that international usage as between belligerents and neutrals consists of two branches, distinct in respect of the parties affected, of the moral relation of these parties to each other, and of the means by which a breach of the accepted rules can be punished. In the one case the parties are sovereign States. Both of these are affected...
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