Jurisdiction Over Foreign Ships in Territorial Waters, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Charles Noble Gregory
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364621035
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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Excerpt from Jurisdiction Over Foreign Ships in Territorial Waters, Vol. 2 "War," says Grotius, "is undertaken for the sake of peace." So discussion is undertaken for the sake of conclusions. If the conclusions are not as definite as could be wished in the present instance, it is hoped that it is not wholly due to the indolence or incompetency of the writer, but in large part to the difficulties presented by the overlapping of municipal and international laws, and by the lack of any final tribunal which can adjust and end differences. Again Grotius, and there is no better authority, quotes approvingly certain rules of mercy as part of the law of nations, but adds, "not of all, but of the best," and so we can only try to deduce the rules "of the best." With this apology it seems right to say that under the topic named it is not proposed to go generally into the subject of the nature and extent of the rights in the sea appertaining to the adjoining coast. Even the greatest expanse of water known to the geographer, the Pacific Ocean, was claimed as within the jurisdiction of a great power in the past, and the seas were largely apportioned among the maritime states. Portugal claimed the Guinea seas, and the path to the Indian Ocean by way of the Cape of Good Hope, as within her exclusive dominion; under the Stuarts, England asserted control over the Atlantic Ocean lying between her own coast and her American colonies. The Scandinavian and Russian powers claimed absolute ownership of the Baltic; Venice of the Adriatic, symbolizing her claim by the rites of marriage. No one of these "vain and extravagant pretentions," as Lord C. J. Cockburn called them, survives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.