A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-general, Volume 1

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Francis Wharton
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887

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Contents

WHEN HARM IS DÓNE BY ORDER OF FOREIGN SOVEREIGN SUCH SOVEREIGN IS THE ACCOUNTABLE PARTY 21
64
TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES DETERMINED BY POLITICAL NOT JUDICIAL ACTION 22
68
CHAPTER II
70
STRAITS 29
75
RIVERS 30
81
LAKES AND INLAND SEAS 31
99
MARGINAL BELT OF SEA 32
100
CONTINGENT FUND AND SECRET SERVICE MONEY
108
SELFCONSTITUTED MISSIONS ILLEGAL
109
PRESENTS NOT ALLOWED
110
ELIGIBILITY OF
113
APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFYING OF
114
EXEQUATUR
115
DISMISSAL
116
SHIP NATIONALIZED BY FLAG 33
117
VICECONSULS AND CONSULAR AGENTS
118
NOT TO TAKE PART IN POLITICS
119
PRIVILEGE AS TO PROCESS
120
OTHER PRIVILEGES
121
RIGHT TO GIVE ASYLUM AND PROTECTION
122
CRIMES AT SEA SUBJECT TO COUNTRY OF FLAG
123
PORT JURISDICTION OF SEAMEN AND SHIPPING
124
JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS IN SEMICIVILIZED LANDS
125
PORTS OPEN TO ALL NATIONS 34
127
MERCHANT VESSELS SUBJECT TO POLICE LAW OF PORT 35
128
NEGOTIATION
130
RATIFICATION AND APPROVAL 1 As to treaty making power
131
WHEN TREATY GOES INTO EFFECT
132
CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION
133
FAVORED NATION
134
EFFECT OF
135
NOT SO AS TO PUBLIC SHIPS 36
136
EFFECT OF
137
TREATIES WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL ARE THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND BUT MAY BE MUNICIPALLY MODIFIED BY SUBSEQUE...
138
JUDICIARY CANNOT CONTROL EXECUTIVE IN TREATY MAKING
139
OPPRESSIVE PORT EXACTIONS 37
140
2 AustriaHungary
141
ARMING MERCHANT VESSELS 39
167
NEUTRALIZED WATERS 40
169
CHAPTER III
171
TERRITORIAL CHANGE
187
CORPORATIONS
207
5 Mediation 49
211
WHO MAY CLAIM
215
6 Necessity as where marauders can be checked only by such intervention 50
221
a Amelia Island
222
b Pensacola and Florida posts 50b c Steamboat Caroline
227
d Greytown 50d e Border raiders
229
7 Explorations in barbarous lands e g the Congo 51
234
8 Intercession in extreme cases of political offenders 52
237
10 Good offices for missionaries abroad 54
242
11 Good offices for persecuted Jews 55
249
MATRIMONIAL CAPACITY
263
12 Nonprohibition of publications or subscriptions in aid of political action
264
abroad 56
265
13 Charitable contributions abroad 56a III INTERVENTION OF EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS IN AFFAIRS OF THIS CONTINENT DIS
268
VIII
331
APPLICATION OF TO ENEMYS PROPERTY
338
2 Peru 59
340
WHEN ENEMYS CHARACTER IS IMPUTABLE TO NEUTRALS
352
II
359
3 Cuba 60
362
DUTY OF NEUTRAL AS TO BLOCKADE RUNNING
365
CHAPTER XXI
386
RESTRICTIONS OF NEUTRAL
395
DEGREE OF VIGH ANCE TO BE EXERCISED
402
4 San Domingo and Hayti 61
413
5 Danish West Indies
416
Sandwich Islands 62
417
7 Samoa Caroline and other Pacific Islands 63
436
8 Corea
442
9 Falkland Islands 65
443
10 Liberia 66
445
11 China 67
447
6 China 144
469
12 Japan 68
492
8 Costa Rica and Honduras 146
499
RECOGNITION OF BELLIGERENCY 69
511
RECOGNITION OF SOVEREIGNTY 70
523
SUCH RECOGNITION DETERMINABLE BY EXECUTIVE 71
551
ACCRETION NOT COLONIZATION THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES 72
553
CHAPTER IV
581
XXXII
582
IMPOSED 83
601
MINISTER MISCONDUCTING HIMSELF MAY BE SENT BACK 81
603
MODE OF PRESENTATION AND TAKING LEAVE 85
612
INCUMBENT CONTINUES UNTIL ARRIVAL OF SUCCESSOR 86
616
HOW FAR DOMESTIC CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT OPERATES TO RECALL 87
618
DIPLOMATIC GRADES 88
621
CITIZENS OF COUNTRY OF RECEPTION NOT ACCEPTABLE 88a XIV
628
1 Confined to official business
632
2 Usually in writing 896
633
COMMUNICATIONS FROM FOREIGNERS ONLY TO BE RECEIVED THROUGH DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES 91
635
DIPLOMATIC AGENTS PROTECTED FROM PROCESS 1 Who are so privileged 92
638
2 Illegality of process against 93
644
3 Exemption from criminal prosecution
646
4 What attack on a minister is an international offence
648
AND FROM PERSONAL INDIGNITY 94
649
AND FROM TAXES AND IMPOSTS
651
PROPERTY PROTECTED 96
654
FREE TRANSIT AND COMMUNICATION WITH SECURED 97
655
PRIVILEGED FROM TESTIFYING 98
667
CANNOT BECOME BUSINESS AGENTS 99
670
NOR REPRESENT FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 100
671
SHOULD RESIDE AT CAPITAL 101
672
JOINT ACTION WITH OTHER DIPLOMATIC AGENTS UNADVISABLE 102
673
RIGHT of PROTECTION AND ASYLUM 104
675
MAY EXTEND PROTECTION TO CITIZENS OF FRIENDLY COUNTRIES 105
696
10 France
755
a Treaty of 1778 148
775
c Treaty of 1803 cession of Louisiana 6 148b d Subsequent treaties 1480
776

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Page 483 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 271 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Page 176 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 267 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth ; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Page 166 - ... to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 170 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 358 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Page 266 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 271 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the Minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at St. Petersburg, to arrange, by amicable negotiation, the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the north-west coast of this Continent.
Page 272 - In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgment of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.

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