Introduction to the Study of International Law: Designed as an Aid in Teaching, and in Historical Studies

Theodore Dwight Woolsey

J. Munroe, 1860 - International law - 486 pages

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INTRODUCTION DEFINITION GROWTH JURAL AND MORAL GROUNDS SOURCES OF IN TERNATIONAL LAW 1 2 A law of action for stat...	1

3 4 International law what in a wider sense?	3

Actual international law what?	5

Its genesis and voluntary nature It is of later growth than state	6

Why it arose in Christian states	7

Quite imperfect elsewhere Illustrations of this from Greece and Rome Not true that these nations had no interna tional law Its leading features in medi...	8

Names given to this science Not the same as jus gentium	9

Differs from jus naturale	10

2 Furnishing troops to belligerents	161

What may a neutrals subject	162

Rights of neutrals	163

Continued	164

Municipal laws enforcing neutrality	165

Importance of questions touching rights of neutral trade	167

Who are neutrals and what is neutral property?	168

a General principles as to liability of goods to capture 169 b Nationality of goods and vessels as affecting their liability to capture	169

Definition of jus naturale by Grotius	11

Puffendorf confounds jus naturale and international	12

A reference to the standard of justice necessary in interna tional	13

It cannot be resolved into contract obligation	14

Must be looked at both as a positive law and in its relations to jus and morals Its jural grounds	15

Its moral grounds	16

Particular rights and obligations of nations	17

Observations on certain rights 1 The right of reputation	18

2 The right of redress	19

3 Is there a right of punishing other states?	20

Moral relations or duties and moral claims of states	22

A state what? Pirates no state	36

Noninterference the rule but with exceptions Interference	42

During the age of Louis XIV	44

Results of an attempt to establish a law of interference in	48

Property of states what in international law?	52

Rights over river navigation Rules of Congress of Vienna	58

Exterritoriality its limits as to sovereigns ships of war	64

Domicil what?	67

e At the period of Napoleons downfall	74

Use of courts how far allowed to strangers Suits against	76

The Forms of Intercourse or International Courtesy	82

Origin of the privilege of ambassadors	88

Treaties procured by fraud falsehood or force not binding	100

Other modes of confirming the faith of treaties Hostages	106

Evils of privateering Testimony to these evils Endeavors	122

Summing	130

Civil wars Wars with savages	136

Complete title given by a court	141

Ransom of captured vessels Hostages to secure ransom	142

Recapture Rights of the original owner Jus postliminii	143

Rewards for capture and recapture Salvage Its amount	144

Effects of temporary conquests	145

Intercourse in war 1 for the purposes of	146

2 Licences and safe conducts	147

Truce or armistice	148

Time when a truce begins End of a truce	149

Peace what? Of treaties of peace in general Language used in treaties	150

Restrictions on the power to make peace	151

Effect of treaties of peace	152

Continued	153

Time when a treaty begins to be binding	154

Doctrine of neutrality of modern growth Neutrals who? Gradations of neutrality Permanent neutrality Armed neutrality	155

Obligations of neutrals to be impartial	156

To stand aloof from both parties	157

To be humane to both	158

The neutral may admit into his ports warvessels of the belli gerents	159

Treatment of vessels conveying hostile goods	170

Justice of the rules respecting neutral trade considered	171

Former practice in regard to neutral trade	172

Historical illustrations	173

Continued	174

Declaration attached to the peace of Paris in 1856	176

Neutral property in armed enemies vessels	177

Contraband of	178

What goods are contraband in the usage of nations?	179

Results as to deciding what articles are contraband Occasional contraband	180

Is it just and sanctioned by usage? Opinions in respect to	181

Preemption English practice in cases of preemption	182

Penalty for contraband at sea Treaty modifying the pen alty	183

Neutral carrying the enemys despatches	184

Trade closed in peace but open in	185

Blockade What places can be blockaded? Why is a breach	186

The right of search Its narrow limits Duty of submitting to it Treaties often regulate the right	190

Is there a right of convoy? Historical illustrations	191

Its justice considered	192

Neutrals under belligerent convoy	193

Search during peace to execute revenue laws	194

The Agents in the Intercourse of Nations or	195

Search of foreign vessels suspected of being slavers unauthor ized	196

But conceded by treaties between most of the European states Examples of such treaties	197

Obligations of the United States in regard to the slavetrade Resolution of Congress Feb 28 1823 Negotiations in Eng land and convention of 1824 am...	198

Treaty of Washington in 1842 Practice under the treaty	199

What does the right of search mean? Doctrine held by the United States New discussion concerning the right in 1858 1859	200

Nationality of vessels a legitimate matter for inquiry in peace	201

Right of search for her seamen claimed by Great Britain	202

DEFECTS SANCTIONS PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 203 Defects of international law 1 Its uncertainty	203

2 Its narrow limits	204

3 There is no umpire in controversies	205

Projects of peace between nations 1 St Pierres 2 J Ben thams 3 Kants Wm Ladds essay	206

Sanctions of international	207

Progress and improvement of international	208

Its prospects for the future	209

Importance of the study especially in this country	210

Treaties of guaranty	247

When do treaties begin to be binding?	253

Rightfulness of war For what may war be undertaken?	262

What notice of a state of war ought to be given?	272

Is the slavetrade piracy?	316

of blockade unlawful? Validity of a blockade Paper or cabinet blockades unlawful	412

Evidence of a blockade What is due notice? What is a dis continuance of a blockade	414

Penalty for breach of blockade Duration of liability to pen alty	416

4 Is there a right of conquest?	474

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Title	Introduction to the Study of International Law: Designed as an Aid in Teaching, and in Historical Studies
Author	Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Publisher	J. Munroe, 1860
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	30 Apr 2007
Length	486 pages

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