History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America: From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842

Gould, Banks, 1845 - Europe - 797 pages

Conduct of the Athenians on the surrender of Melos	10

Theory of the balance of power among the ancient nations	16

Roman fecial law and jus gentium	25

Influence of the canon law and the writings of the casuists	33

PART FIRST	69

First Period from the Peace of Westphalia to that of Utrecht	82

Public jurists of the latter half of the seventeenth century	88

Leibnitz	98

Maritime Convention of 1801 between Great Britain and Russia	401

Treaties of Paris 181415	421

Congress of Vienna	424

Questions of Poland and Saxony	425

Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas of 1832 annexing the kingdom of Poland to the Russian Empire	435

Treaty of Vienna relating to Cracow	441

Formation of the Germanic Confederation 1815	445

Additional federal act of Vienna 1820	455

Samuel Rachel	104

Conventional maritime law of nations	115

Treaties between Holland and other Powers	122

Opinion of Bynkershook	128

Blockade	137

Right of visitation and search	145

Dominion of the Seas	152

Sovereignty claimed by Denmark over the Sound and Belts	158

PART SECOND	165

Seven Years War	171

Vattel	182

Montesquieu	189

Minor public jurists	198

Case of the Silesia loan	206

Rule of the War of 1756	217

Questions of precedency	229

Projet de Paix perpetuelle de lAbbé de Saint Pierre	261

HISTORY OF THE LAW OF NATIONS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA FROM	269

Second Partition 1793	278

Question of the free navigation of the Scheldt 1781	284

War of North American Independence 1776	290

PART FOURTH	345

Object of the War on the part of Great Britain 355	371

Maritime Law of Nations during the War of the French Re volution	372

British Orders in Council of June and November 1793	373

Discussion between the American and French governments upon the rule of free ships free goods	388

Question between Great Britain and the Northern Powers as to the right of search of vessels under convoy	390

Armed Neutrality of 1800	397

Decree of the diet at Frankfort 1832	460

Act of the diet 1834	470

Affairs of Italy	486

Union of Genoa to Sardinia	487

Union of Norway and Sweden	491

Union of Belgium with Holland	492

Swiss confederation	493

Definition of the relative rank of public ministers	496

Abolition of the African slave trade	497

Freedom of navigation of the great rivers	498

Discussion between the United States and Spain respecting the navigation of the river Mississippi	508

Discussion between the Amercan and British governments respecting the navigation of the St Lawrence	511

Alliance of the five Great European Powers	517

Intervention of Austria Russia and Prussia in the affairs of Naples 1820	518

Intervention of France in the Spanish Revolution 1822	519

Intervention of Great Britain in the affairs of Portugal 1826	521

Quadruple alliance between France Great Britain Spain and Portugal 1834	523

Treaty of 1831 for the separation of Belgium from Holland	551

Relations of the Ottoman Empire with the other European States	555

Treaty of Unkiar Skellessi 1833	568

Treaty of the 13th July 1841 relating to the entrance of	583

Treaty of Washingtou between the United States and Great	699

Public jurists of this period	749

Hegel	754

Right of preemption	769

Intervention of France Great Britain and Russia in the Greek Revolution 1827 561	777

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Title	History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America: From the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Washington, 1842
Author	Henry Wheaton
Publisher	Gould, Banks, 1845
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	24 Nov 2008
Length	797 pages

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