HALLECK'S INTERNATIONAL LAW OR RULES REGULATING THE INTERCOURSE OF STATES IN PEACE AND WAR FOURTH EDITION THOROUGHLY REVISED AND IN MANY PARTS rewritteN BY HIS HONOUR SIR G. SHERSTON BAKER, BT. JUDGE OF COUNTY COURTS RECORDER OF BARNSTAPLE AND BIDEFORD; ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL ASSISTED BY MAURICE N. DRUCQUER, M.A., LL.B., LOND. BARSTOW SCHOLAR; OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW VOL. I. LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÙBNER & CO. LTD. DRYDEN HOUSE, GERRARD STREET, W. 1908 PREFACE ΤΟ THE FOURTH EDITION THIS work was published in 1861 by the Author, MajorGeneral Halleck of the United States Army. In 1878 I edited the work, leaving the original text untouched, but revising it to that date, by means of notes, adding also the principal cases which touched on International Law. In doing this I availed myself of the excellent Digest contained in the volumes of the Law Magazine,' then edited by my friends the late Professor Taswell-Langmead and the late Mr. C. H. E. Carmichael of the Inner Temple. On that occasion, mindful of the hint conveyed by the late Sir Edward Creasy in his 'First Platform of International Law' (p. 81), I added an index, since then much amplified, which was kindly prepared for me by my friend Mr. L. Jervis Amos, now Registrar of the Ipswich County Court. In the third edition (1893) I endeavoured to make the work more useful by omitting all portions of the text which contained incorrect or obsolete law, and by inserting in the place thereof the existing law, instead of merely correcting the text by means of marginal notes, and this plan I have continued in this, the fourth edition, with the assistance of my friend Mr. Maurice N. Drucquer of the Middle Temple, on whom much of the heavy work has necessarily fallen owing to so much of my time being required in Court. The International Conventions signed at the Hague in 1899, and subsequently ratified by many States, will be found set out in full in the following pages, as also a précis of the further Conventions submitted by the Second Hague |