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Maritime Warfare and Merchant-shipping: A Summary of the Rights of Capture ... Douglas Owen No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 43 - Declaration: 1 . Privateering is, and remains, abolished; 2. 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.
Page 26 - Majesty shall judge capable of being converted into, or made useful in increasing the quantity of, military or naval stores...
Page 31 - ... arms, military stores, or materials, or any article or articles considered and deemed to be contraband of war according to the law or modern usage of nations, for the use or service of either of the said contending parties...
Page 31 - And we do hereby give notice that all our subjects and persons entitled to our protection who may misconduct themselves in the premises will do so at their peril and of their own wrong: and that they will in no wise obtain any protection from us against such capture or such penalties as aforesaid, but will, on the contrary, incur our high displeasure by such misconduct.
Page 31 - And we do hereby further warn all our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, that if any of them shall presume, in contempt of this our royal proclamation, and of our high displeasure, to do any acts in derogation of their duty as subjects of a neutral sovereign...
Page 31 - ... without incurring the risk of hostile capture and the penalties denounced by the law of nations in that behalf.
Page 39 - The maritime territory of every State extends to the ports, harbours, bays, mouths of rivers, and adjacent parts of the sea enclosed by headlands belonging to the same State.
Page 31 - ... strictly command that no person or persons whatsoever do commit any act, matter, or thing whatsoever contrary to the provisions of the said statute, upon pain of the several penalties by the said statute imposed and of our high displeasure. And we do hereby further warn and admonish all our loving subjects, and all persons whatsoever entitled to our protection, to observe...
Page 7 - The court has often had occasion to observe, that where a ship, asserted to have been transferred, is continued under the former agency and in the former habits of trade, not all the swearing in the world will convince it that it is a genuine transaction.