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CASES AND OPINIONS

ON

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

ON

INTERNATIONAL LAW,

AND VARIOUS POINTS OF ENGLISH LAW

CONNECTED THEREWITH.

COLLECTED AND DIGESTED FROM

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN REPORTS,
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, AND

OTHER SOURCES.

WITH

NOTES CONTAINING THE VIEWS OF THE TEXT-WRITERS
ON THE TOPICS REFERRED TO, SUPPLEMENTARY
CASES, TREATIES, AND STATUTES.

PART I. PEACE.

BY

PITT COBBETT, M.A., D.C.L. (Oxon.),

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OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND HAYNES,

Law Publishers,

BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR,

Printed by BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London

JX68 .C8

PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.

THIS selection of illustrative cases was originally designed mainly as a kind of adjunct or companion volume to existing text-books; and this character it in some measure still retains. But in the present edition, with a view to ensuring a greater continuity of treatment, and a fuller consideration of the many recent changes both in the subject-matter and literature of international law, systematic notes have been added. These may perhaps appear incongruous with the original design; but, even if this be so, it is hoped that the plan of using a concrete case and its governing principle as a startingpoint for a survey of kindred topics and related principles may not prove altogether ineffective as a means of conveying information. The notes immediately following a selected case are mainly, although not exclusively, directed towards the English or American law on the subject under consideration; whilst the general notes have a wider range. These notes are necessarily somewhat condensed; but on all topics of importance references are given either to the leading text-books, or to some other source of further information.

The cases selected are, indeed, largely of English or American origin, and are for the most part decisions of municipal Courts. But the law of nations is ascertained

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