An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich Martens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1801 |
Genre | Capture at sea |
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An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich Martens |
Publisher | The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Capture at sea |
ISBN | 1584774010 |
Martens, [Georg Friedrich von]. An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe. To Which is Subjoined, A Discourse, In Which the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers are Briefly Stated. Translated From the French, With Notes by Thomas Hartwell Horne. London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, and J. Rider, 1801. xx, 240, [4] pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-401-0. Cloth. $95. * Reprint of the first English edition. The Discourse is an extract from the author's Summary of the Modern Law of the Nations of Europe (1789). Martens [1756-1821] was a German diplomat and jurist who published several important treatises on international law. Like Bynkershoeck and Moser, Martens rejected the idea that international law derived from God or nature. Instead, it is an acquired behavior practiced by civilized states. This perspective informs his Essay on Privateers, which was one of the first books on the subject. A model of rational organization, it reduces its subject to a system grounded in a set of clear principles.
An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich Martens |
Publisher | Theclassics.Us |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2013-09 |
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ISBN | 9781230433141 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION U. 'The Principles of the positive Law of Nations on tbi Subject of Recaptures* 55 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. WHAT has been already said seems to prove sufficiently that a multitude of cases may offer on the subject of recaptures doubtful enough, and also difficult enough to resolve, to shew that we ought not to abandon them to the understanding alone, and to the opinion of any single judge, whose good fense is not always sufficient to produce, amid so many difficulties, uniform, just, and equitable decisions; besides, the good fense of one judge is not always that of another, and the very great value which such an one affixes to his own, is not always a proof of his insallibility. Consequently it is of infinite importance to determine by laws, conventions, and mutual declarations, what is liable to be viewed in such different lights, by the aid of mere reason. Add to this, that whatever may be the system we embrace, there may be in it sound reasons by which to attain positive determinations, by deviating in some some points from the law of nature, or by adding to what it prescribes. Admitting that the captor becomes proprietor ofhis prize when he has conducted it into a place of sasety, we may find it useful to determine, whether he shall also become proprietor of it, if he has been in possession of it during a certain time, for instance twenty-four hours. Thus, if we admit, that according to the law of nature a recapture ought always to be restored to the first proprietor, the want of encouragement for the soldier by the allurement of plunder, and for the privateer by that of prizes, added to the mutual inconveniences which a multitude of suits of reclaim" may produce, especially when after a considerable time the proof of the...
An Essay on Privateers
Title | An Essay on Privateers PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich Martens |
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Pages | 240 |
Release | 1801 |
Genre | Neutrality |
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An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe PDF eBook |
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Pages | 240 |
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An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe, to which is Subjoined a Discourse, in which the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers are Briefly Stated
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Particularly on Recaptures, According to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime Powers of Europe, to which is Subjoined a Discourse, in which the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers are Briefly Stated PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich von Martens |
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An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and particularly on Recaptures ... To which is subjoined a discourse in which the rights and duties of Neutral Powers are briefly stated. Translated from the French, with notes, by T. H. Horne
Title | An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and particularly on Recaptures ... To which is subjoined a discourse in which the rights and duties of Neutral Powers are briefly stated. Translated from the French, with notes, by T. H. Horne PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Friedrich Martens |
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