Law of Contraband of War; With the Reported Cases to the Present Time, and a Selection of Unreported Cases from the Papers of the Right Hon. Sir Geo. Lee LL.D, Formerly Dean of the Arches, Etc., Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ... Sladen, of Stockholm, brought in for want of passports by the Marquis of Caermarthen. The Judge allowed the owners to plead, and prove their property. They proved their property. The Judge restored them, but pronounced for just cause of seizure. Appealed the Anna; the Lords confirmed the sentence. But in the other case, the Sladen, of Stockholm, was condemned by the Lords for want of a passport, and the Judge's sentence reversed. Pitch and tar are proper for many purposes; no express precedent of condemning these goods as contraband. The words of the Latin Treaty with Sweden in 1661 article 11.: --" Cautum tantum-modo sit interim ne merces Uiice vocatce contrabanda et specialiter nec pecunia," &c.; and then says, "may carry any goods de quibus supra exceptum non est." The Swedes never complained of being obliged to sell their pitch and tar in England. i Dumont, vol. vi. p. 385. Dr. Edmunds, same side. Med Gum The constitution of Sweden is altered since the treaty Hielie. of 1661; and they have now a Chamber of Commerce 1750. which grants passports in their form, and they have never 'un0 29" granted any in the form of the treaty. In the Humility it was held not to justify a seizure, and costs and damages given against the captor. Pitch and tar no where expressly mentioned as contraband. Contraband are things which are of service in war in the shape they are in. Sir Leoline Jenkiris Life, 2 vol. fol. 751., Letter 29th August, 1674, to the King. Bergdstadt, of Stockholm, laden with pitch and tar, for account of an Englishman going to France, seized by a Spanish privateer who was in war with France and carried to Ostend, there brought to condemnation upon a declaration of the Spanish Governor that they were contraband. Sir Leoline o...