INTERNATIONAL LAW OR RULES REGULATING THE INTERCOURSE OF STATES IN PEACE AND WAR THIRD EDITION THOROUGHLY REVISED AND IN MANY PARTS REWRITTEN BY SIR SHERSTON BAKER, BART. OF LINCOLN'S INN, AND OF The western CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL VOL. I. LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER, & CO. LTD. PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1893 LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY. A. 441037 SEP 6 1900 (The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved) PREFACE ΤΟ THE THIRD 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 numbers of the Law Magazine,' edited by my friends the late Professor Taswell-Langmead and 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, which was kindly prepared for me by my friend Mr. JervisAmos of Clement's Inn. . In this, the third edition, I have endeavoured to make the work more useful to the reader, by omitting all portions of the text which contained incorrect or obsolete law, and by inserting in the place thereof new matter concerning the existing law, instead of merely correcting the text by means. of marginal notes. The reader will find some account of all the cases reported to the beginning of 1892 which are of interest to the international lawyer, and every question of historical or juridical importance to the same date will be found noted in its proper place. My endeavour has ever been to render the work not one of mere theory, but to make it |