LECTURE XI. RIGHTS OF CAPTURE BY LAND.Before I leave the group of subjects discussed in the more recent lectures， it may be well to say something on a...
LECTURE X. MENTIONS OF BELLIGERENTS ON LAND.The Brussels Conference failed to solve a number of questions of modern origin which have arisen as to the...
LECTURE IX. RULES AS TO PRISONERS AND QUARTER.At the close of my last lecture I spoke of the Geneva Convention of 1864 as the farthest， as well as the...
LECTURE VIII. THE MODERN LAWS OF WAR.In my last lecture I explained the detestation which newly-invented instruments of war sometimes occasioned in ol...
LECTURE VII. THE MITIGATION OF WAR.The age in which International Law was born was an age of land wars. The wars of succession and of feudal ascendanc...
LECTURE VI. THE DECLARATION OF PARIS.One point of considerable interest in International Law is the very different degree of durability which the vari...
LECTURE V. NAVAL OR MARITIME BELLIGERENCY.To sum up what I have been saying. I have been discussing certain legal fictions which are signified through...
LECTURE IV. TERRITORIAL RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNTY.All the department of International Law with which I was occupied at the close of my last lecture， the a...
LECTURE III. STATE SOVEREIGNTYI now propose to occupy you with a group of questions arising out of a subject of much interest and magnitude —&md...
LECTURE II. ITS AUTHORITY AND SANCTION.In the latter portion of the last lecture I endeavoured to establish three propositions， which I hold to be ext...