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A. J. I. L. Spec absolute contraband admitted American Appeal applied to contraband armed forces Article belligerent right Bermuda blockaded port breach of blockade Britain British Government British Prize Court claimants colonial common stock condemnation conditional contraband considered consigned to order consignee continuous voyage Council of October Court held decision Declaration of London decreed doctrine of continuous enemy country enemy port evidence fact Fauchille French Germany hostile destination Ibid illegal intention intercepted international law Jurisprudence française liable to capture Lloyd's London Naval Conference Nassau neutral country neutral port neutral vessel October 29 Order in Council Peterhoff presumption of enemy presumption of ultimate principle Prize Law question regarded rule seized seizure ship ship's papers shippers Springbok Stephen Hart Sweden tinuous voyage tion traband trade transshipment ultimate destination ultimate enemy destination United vessel and cargo violate a blockade visit and search voyage to blockade voyage was applied
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Page 100 - Conditional contraband is not liable to capture, except when found on board a vessel bound for territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or for the armed forces of the enemy, and when it is not to be discharged in an intervening neutral port.
Page 109 - ... or if the ship's papers do not show who is the consignee of the goods or if they show a consignee of the goods in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy.
Page 100 - Article 33 is presumed to exist if the goods are consigned to enemy authorities, or to a contractor established in the enemy country who, as a matter of common knowledge, supplies articles of this kind to the enemy. A similar presumption arises if the goods are consigned to a fortified place belonging to the enemy, or other place serving as a base for the armed forces of the enemy.
Page 103 - Whatever may be the ulterior destination of a vessel or of her cargo, she cannot be captured for breach of blockade, if, at the moment, she is on her way to a non-blockaded port.
Page 54 - If there be an intention, either formed at the time of original shipment, or afterwards, to send the goods forward to an unlawful destination, the continuity of the voyage will not be broken, as to the cargo, by any transactions at the intermediate port.
Page 13 - France. 1. That they shall bring in for lawful adjudication all vessels with their cargoes, that are laden with goods, the produce of the French West India Islands, and coming directly from any port of the said islands to any port in Europe.
Page 137 - ... reasonable prohibition of international law against the blockading of neutral ports by according free admission and exit to all lawful traffic with neutral ports through the blockading cordon. This traffic would of course include all outward-bound traffic from the neutral country and all inward-bound traffic to the neutral country except contraband in transit to the enemy.
Page 120 - ... enemy State, or to or for a person in territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy, or if the goods are consigned 'to order...
Page 42 - ... liable to confiscation; and it has been ruled that, without license from government, no communication, direct or indirect, can be carried on with the enemy ; that the interposition of a prior port makes no difference; that all trade with the enemy is illegal, and the circumstance that the goods are to go first to a neutral port will not make it lawful.
Page 101 - A vessel carrying goods liable to capture as absolute or conditional contraband may be captured on. the high seas or in the territorial waters of the belligerents throughout the whole of her voyage, even if she is to touch at a port of call before reaching the hostile destination.