BALTIC Sea, 149
Bays, 144-51

Behring Sea arbitration, 1893, 127-135
Belgium, status of, 54

Belligerency, recognition of, 49, 63, 67
Belligerent communities, 49, 55, 63, 67
Berlin, Treaty of, 1878, 12, 50, 56, 61,
126, 338

Berlin Conference, 1885, 12, 50, 52, 54,
110, 115, 126, 304
Berlin Congress, 1878, 338

Berlin Convention (copyright), 1908, 13
Berne Convention, 1886, 13
Bigamy, 221-4, 226

Black Sea, 149, 334-9

Blockade, war, 65, 353-8

See also Pacific blockade

Bombardment of native villages, 350
Bond-Blaine Convention, 162

Bond-Hay Treaty, 162

Bosnia, status of, 56, 118
Bosphorus, 154

Boundaries of States, 99-119, 148
Boycott, 15, 42, 210 n
Brigands, 213 n

242

influence of text-writers, 8

juridical character and basis, 242
subject-matter, 242

Private vessels. See Vessels
Prizes, 270

Property of States, 108 et seq.
Protected States, 56, 62

Protection of person and property of
nationals, 180-2
Protectorates, 115-7, 259
Protocol, meaning of, 331
Pruth River, 125

Public law of Europe, 12

Public vessels, 42, 78, 261-75

ships of war, 261-5, 275-9
other, 42, 78, 266-9
asylum, 272
definition, 270.

limitations on immunity in time
of war, 274

persons on board, 269

position in foreign territorial
waters, 271-2

prizes, 270

rights and duties on high seas,
275-9

salutes, 278-9

Pursuit, 136, 170, 175