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ON THE LAWS OF BLOCKADE;
A TH ESIS
FOR THB
■ Degree of doctor of Civil Law,
PRESENTED TO
MoGill University, Montreal,
BY
THOMAS NICHOL, B.C.L.,
February A tSSf.
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pontreat :
PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL & SON.
1887.
TABLK OF CASES.
Aiielnido, 2 Rohin^on ! 1 1
Ailoni!", 5 Hobindoii 256...,
Aiitlicm, I I>od«on 425...,
fAUR
BetDoy, 1 Robinson «2 10
•' 1 Rol)ins(.n 92 25
•' I l{..l.iiis«ii <.)3 ;<()
" I Kobinson .•{34. , - 'AH
Ryfield, Kdwards 188 27
Ciily|iso, 2 Robinson 298 2(i
Charlotta, 1 Edwards 252 . 37
Charlotfp Chrictinc, Kobinson 101 39
ChriKtiansbcrK, 6 Robinson 378 48
Culuiitiiia, I Kobiiii^on 155... 22
" I Robinson 156 36
" I Robinson 154 40
• " I Robinson 154 49
Drio Vriondon, I Dodson 259 27
EM>,'ic, I Acton 65 31
Kunroni, 2 Robinson 9 45
Kl!
, 5 Robinson 173 50
E.xcliange, Kdwurds 42, 43 24
" i Edwards 43 48
Fortunn, 5 loliinson 27 23
Fox, E.lwards, .■i2l 9
•' 1 Edwards 320 :i4
Friuicisl
•fongc I'otroiicllii, 1! Robinson 131 20
JoRgo Pietor, 4 RobuiHun 8tt 40
.lungfriiii Miirili SohrtBdor, 3 Ilobinson 147 10
" '• " .T Robinson 147 60
" «' " .'{ Robinson 152 , 60
Lis»!i.ti', « Robinson .S95 43
Mnj?niin, I Robinson :{1 42
Mnriii. « Robinson 201 42
Muliiniu, 2 Dodijon 130 31
Mentor, 1 Robinnon 183 16
Morouriuii, I Robinson 82 18
" 1 Robinson 80 47
Niincy, 1 Acton 58 32
" I Acton 64, 65 32
Xeptunus, 2 Robinson 113 17
'' 2 Robinson 110 28
Norcido, 5 Crancb 343 36
Neutralitut, 6 Robinson 30 38
Ocean. 3 Robinson 297 40
Potsdam, 4 Robinson 89 27
RoUa, 6 Robinson 367 16
" 6 Robinson 367 25
Sliepherdess, 5 Robinson 262 23
Spos and Irene, 5 Robinson 79 22
" " 5 Robinson 76 38
Stert, 4 Robinson 66 28
Vrow Judith, 1 Robinson 151 28
'* 1 Robinson 151 ; » 39
Wolvaart Van Pillau, 2 Robinson 130 26
" '' •' 2Robin»oul28 46
ON THE LAWS OF BLOCKADE.
TIiu Blockade of tlio Midillo Ai^ns dift'cri'd radically from the
Bloi'kade of to-day. When aljout to enj^astd
and cargo. Thus Urotius tells us that during the long ;ind
bloody war carried on by the United Provinces for the recovery
of their liberties, the}' refused the English permission to trade
with Dunkirk before which the Dutch Heel lay. (a)
liut even after this UKulern Doctrine of Blockade was devel-
oped to a considerable extent, standard writers on International
Law devoted very little .sjtace to it. Thus N'attel gives it pre-
cisely thirteen linefi, the essential part being as follows : — " All
commerce is entirely proliibiled wiiii a besieged town. If 1 lay
siege to a place, or oidy form the blockade, I hav{) a right to
hinder any one from entering, and to treat as an enemy who-
ever attempts to enter the [ilace, or carry anything to the be-
seiged, without my leave ; for he opposes my enterprise, may
(a) Vattel'e Law of Nations, B. 3, Ch. 7, § 117.
contribute to the iniscarringe of it, and thus cause me to fall into
all tlie evils of an unsuccfssful war." (a) Martens, still more
economical of spaeo, gives this important doctrine just Kii'^i/trs /
Towards the close of tlie eighteenth cei»tury the stronger
maritime ])OW(;rs, notably Clreat Britain and France, endeavoured
to stretch the tloctrine of Blockade unduly. Great liritain, for
instance, would declare the French coast blockaded from Brest
to Dunkirk, station a frigate here and there, and in all serious-
ness endeavor to make the mercantile world believe in this
Idockade.
Blockades of this nature led to the famous declaration by the
Empress Catherine II. of I'ussia, that "the blockade of a port
can exist only when, through the arrangements of the power
which attacks a jjort by means of vessels stationed there and
suHiciently near, there isaneviilent danger in entering." Hence
arose the A^'itied NcidraUtij which, in 1780 and again in 1800,
asserted the rights of neutral commerce. In addition to this
grievance concerning blockade, the Armed Neutrality claimed
that Great Britain liau enlarged tiie list of contraband goods
bevond just bounds, that their merchant vessels had been stib-
jected •() vexatious examinations, and especially that the old
r-'le that tututral uli ips make neutral cavgoes had been systema-
tically set aside.
The principles ol this liimoiis league may Ix' thus summarizccl :
1. That neutral powers liave a right to a fn^e trade with the
ports of the belligerent powers ; 2. that neutral vessels make
neutral goods, that is, that enemy's go(xls found on board neutral
vessels ought not to be confiscated; 8. that no giods shall be
rej)utt'd contraband which have not been so declared in treaties
made with the belligerent j)owers, or one of them ; 4. that a
place shall not be looked npon as blockaded, except when sur-
rounded by the enemy's vessels iu such a manner as to render
all entrance manifestly dangerous ; and, lastly, that these prin-
ciples shall serve as the basis of all decisions touching the
(a)Oi). cit. B. III,Ch Vir.,§117.
legality of prizes. It will be noted that the section relating to
blockade is nmrvellously similar to tlie statement of the Treaty
of Paris, formulated two generations later — " Blockades in order
to be binding must be effectual, that is to say, maintained by a
force sufficient in reality to prevent access to the coast of the
enemv."
Denmark was the first to join the league on June 9th, 1780 ;
followed by Sweden, August 1, 1780; the United Provinces,
January 5, 1781; Prussia, May 8, 1781; the German
Empire, October 0, 1781; Portugal, July 13, 1782; and the
Two Sicilies in 1783.
The Emperor Paul was the ruling spirit of the second Armed
Neutmlity, just as his mother had been of the first, and it was
dissolved by his violent death. Finally, all the points of dift'er-
ence between these Neutral Powers and Great liritain were
amicably settled, but the Mistress of the Seas did not abandon
her peculiar views on the subject of Blockade.
Phillimore sarcastically remarks that " the most remarkable
fact connected with the Armed Neutrality of 1780, is that
every one of the powers composing this hallowed league for the
maintenance of International Justice upon the principles of the
Russian edict departed from the obligation which they had con-
tracted as Neutrals as soon as they became Bdlhjerents, and
returned without shame or hesitation to the ancient law." (a)
But though the Northern Powers and tlieir allies desisted
from their opposition to the policy of Great Britain, the French
Government intensitied its opposition. In the year 179G all
the porta of Genoa and of the Roman States were closed to
British commerce by sjtecial treaty with the French Republic,
and in 1801 Naples and Portugal were induced to adopt the
same line of action.
Still Great Britain did not abate one jot of her pretensions, so
in 1806, Prussia, which at that time lield Hanover by the gi-ace
of Napoleon, was forced by him to close all her ports to British
(a) Pliillimore's Commentaries upon International Law, CXCI.
sliipiiinj,'. SiHiii after PnisNiii 1 roke witli France, nn«l after tlie
disastrous ratni)ai,i;n (if.Icna the Hiii|rt'r<»r Xa| olenii (Nov. 21,
1H(I(») issiunl the llcrliii Dcin-e (Uuilariu^' the whoK; of tho
Ihitish Kiupire in a state of hluckatle ; and ail vessels, no matter
(»f what ci.nntry, tradini,' with liritish jmrts, were deelaresiM|uent J)ecn'e all
neutral vesscds W(U'e required to carry artifimfes nf or'ujlti,
that is to say certilicates from the; French consuls of the ports
fntni which they saileil that Ho ^tortUni of flie rartjo < lirl-
tish — really, a revival of an expedient which <»rij,Mnated with
the Directory in the year IV. of the Frencdi IJepulilic (ITOd).
The lierlin Decree vas ]>romptiy followed (Jan. 7, ISlt?) hy
a IJritish Order in Council, conmiaiidin^' the seizure <»f all neu-
tral vessels tradiiij^ from (tne hostile ]iort to another haviu*^
enenjv's j,'oods on Itoard. To this, the French EmiM-ror rei»lied
l)y new elVorts to eid'orcc; the IJerlin Decree. A nundier of
neutral vessels were ca])liiicd and c(»iiliscated for violatin}^ its
jirovisions, and the niauufaetiirini,' interests of tlreat liritain
Seem to have sullered severely. The liritish pivernnient issued
fresh (h'ders in Council (Xov. 11 and L'l, ISUT;, declaring,' tho
jtorts of the French Empire and of all its trihutary states in a
state of hlockade, and ordiirin^ the contiscation of all ships
carryin<^ French ('('rtifi(Uf<'>i of oi'Kj'ni and of all shii>s attempt-
in*^ to trade witii the ports blockaded. And this was backed
1)y a navy carrying' one hundred and eii^'hty thousand seamen
and forty thousand nuirines. Further, all neutral vessels purjws-
\\v^ to trade with lu)stile ports, that is, inyrtx hoxtile to Great
Jh'ifd.in, were ordered in all cases to touch at a liritish port,
pay custom dues there, after which they were, in certain cases,
])ermitted to sail for their destination ! And in all aises, vessels
sailing from a hostile port — and all countries under French
sway were counted hostile — were ordered in the lirst place to
touch at the nearest liritish port.
Those Orders in Council won; follitwod (Dec. 27, 1807) by
the ^liliin Drcree, by which the entire liritish donunions, in
all «|U!iilers of the ^dobe, were declared to be in a state of block-
ade, so that all vessels trading with Great liritain or her colon-
ies were liablo to conliscation. Further provisions of the same
Decree declared that all vessels makin;^ a voyage, for any pur-
pose whatever, to Great Britain, or sulmiitting to be searched
by a IJritish cruiser, or paying any duties or dues to the liritish
Crown, had lost its right to its own Hag, and. i/>.voyW(7o, liad
become 15riti.sh, and that all such vessels, falling u » the hands
of Frencli cruisers, or entering a French i)ort, weri ] iwfnl prize.
At tliis time, say from 1807 to 1812, so "iiny oi the Con-
tinental stat'-s had bt^en absorbed into tlio F'rencb I'^u'pire, or
were dirt'cily under its control, that the jirincipul, uay, ahnost
the >nly neutral power still remaining, was the United States
of America ; consequently, the Americans weie the chief suilt-r-
ers by these Decrees and Orders in Council by which, in reality,
neutral )»owers were punished by the respective belligerents for
the aggressions of their opponents. Accordingly, the American
government apjdied to tlie French government, and obtained a
kind of senii-olHcial assurance that tlie obnoxious Decrees would
not be enforced against American vessels. This was ileemed
satisfactory ; but on application to the Jiritish G(n'ernment, the
American authorities were «lirected to insist upon a public
renunciation l)y France of both Decrees.
Justly incensed at tliis treatment the American government
procecdetl to lay an embargo (Dec, 1807) on allFreiich and
British commercial shi])ping in American ]»orts, and in March,
1809, Congress ])a.ssed an Act forbidding all commert'ial inter-
course with i)oth Great Britain and France, until such time as
these countries should remove their restrictions on neutral com-
merce.
In April, 1809, inconsequence of the Spanish insurrection, a
fresh Order in Council was issued which confined the blockade
to France itself, to Holland and to parts of the German and
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Italian coasts, opening all the rest of the coast blockaded by
previous Orders in Council to neutral trade. By subsequent
Orders tlie plan of licensing neutral vessels to proceed to hostile
ports after liaving ])aid duties at a British one was extended
and systematized, till at length no fewer than sixteen thousand
licenses were issued in a single year.
But the Emperor Napoleon did not relax his continental
system in the least, but owing to the deficiencies of the French
marine, liritish goods were conveyed into France in neutral
bottoms, and in 1810 the Imperial authorities ordered the burn-
ing of all British goods on French soil.
Finally, in 1812, the French government annulled all its
obnoxious Decrees, and, on being informed of that fact, the
British government rescinded all its Orders in Council. But,
by this time, the government of the United States had declared
war against Great Britain.
There can be no doubt whatever but that all these Decrees
and Orders in Council were so many violations of International
Law. The gi'and leading princi}»le which regidates all such
matters is that no neutnd j^oiver shall be annoyed or incom-
moded by any ivarllke open Ui on ivhich shall not have a
greater tendency to benefit the belligerent than to injure the
neutral, and, very clearly, all tliese arbitrary extensions of the
rights of war were calculated to sacrifice neutral rights to the
retaliation of the belligerents.
And it seems to us, looking at the subject from a distance of
time and possibly with cooler heads, that the reasoning, even of
eminent publicists, on this subject is faulty and one-sided in
the extreme. Even Lord Stowell could find no better reason
than Napoleon's Decrees for condemning American vessels for
trading with Italian ports which most certainly were not block-
aded. " This retaliatory blockade " (if blockade it is to be
called), said he, "is co-extensive with the principle ; neutrals
are proiiibited to trade with France, because they are prohibited
by France from trading with England. England acquires the
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right, which it would not otherwise possess, to prohibit inter-
course by virtue of the act of France " {The Fox ; Edwards 321)
And again in a heading case, that of The Anthem, in which he
gives the standard definition of a legal blockade, he states that
the Order in Council of the 2()th of April in that year (1809)
was, amongst others, issued in the way of retaliation fur the
measures which had been jircviously adopted by the French
government: — "Tlie blockade imposed by it is ajtplicable to a
very great extent of coast and was never intended to be main-
tained according to the usual and regular mode of enfurcing
blockades, by stationing a number of ships, and forming, as it
were, an arch of circumvallation round the mouth of the \n'o-
hibited port. There, if the arch fails in any one part, the block-
ade itself fails altogether." (1 Dodson, 425.)
During the long period between the close of the Na])oleonic
wars and the Itussian war of 1854-56, the doctrine of Blockade
remained in the position in which it was left by Lord St(jwi'll,
and during that war a British Order in Council permitted neu-
trals to trade to all ports and places, wheresoever situated, that
were not in a state of blockade. Finally, the jiowers assembled
in congress at Paris declared (April 1(), 1850) that " Blockades
in order to be binding must be etlectual, that is to say, main-
tained by a force sufficient in reality to prevent access to the
coast of the enemy." In all cases the question remains as to
whether or not a blockade has been maintained in such a manner
as to fulfil the terms of tins declaration ; but each case would
require to be investigated on its own merits.
The older doctrine of Blockade exchuled ships of war as well
as merchantmen from blockaded ]>orts, but during the war of the
Rebellion the United States government j)ermitted neutral ships
of war to enter the blockaded Southern j>orts, tind this is the
only marked innovation of this duct'-ine that lias been intro-
duced in our day.
Lord Stowell's famous three thingsuiuat ever remain the lead-
ing idea of the doctrine of BLjckade, at least as understood by
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British and American pul>lici.st.s. " On the question of blockade,"
he says, " three things must be proved : first, the existence of an
actual blockade ; second, the knowledge of the party ; and third,
some act of violation, either by going in or coming out with a
cargo laden after the commencement of the blockade." {The
Bdsei/, 1 ]tol)inson,.92.)
Actual bl(jckade is the essential element of legal blockade.
The blockade of Havre was ])roclaimed by Great JJritain, Febru-
ary 23, 1708, for the alleged purpose of jn-eventing an invasion
by the French; but as late as November, 1701), no lihjckade of
Havre was known to the 15ritish naval authorities to be existing;
between these dates, vessels were invariably j)ermilted to ])a33
in and out of that port. Many vessel, were stojijuMl and examin-
ed as to the nature of the cargo, and their destination, and on
other ]toints, but no objection a}>pears to have bt'en taken on the
ground of blockade; some were proceeded against on other
gr(»unds, and others were released. The shiyj Jaiif/frauMdria
^cln'oi'iler went into Havre in May, 17c)f,», having l)een met by
TJw Sf((f/ frigate, and sutTcred to jiass unmolested; she came out
again on June 14, and saw no ship for forty-eight hours, and
was seized at last olf the North Foreland, by 'llm Co iiiper; 17, 1799, the
British Admiralty transmittinl orders to the cajitain of The
Afdiaiita, "to ])roceed as expeditiously as possilile t(j Havre,
there to taKe under his connnand the s\\\\)H he should find on
that station, for the j)urpose of blocking U[i the ciast, and watch-
ing the motions of the liuemy, and jirotectiug the island of St.
Marcou till further orders," but it was not till Seiitemb(!r 27,
that tilt! Admiralty sent orders t(j this otlict'r, " not to ])';rmit
any vessel, whatever, to enter Havre." It was contended that
this was the first declaration since November, 1798, that Havre
was considered to be under a mercantile blorkatle, and that, con-
se([Uently, between November, 179.S, and the reeeiiit of the Ad-
miralty order of yeptend)er 27, 1799, off Havre, the blockade
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M'as to be Cfiiisidored as totally relaxed, which alone by the law
of nations is lield to operate as a let^'al cessation. " A l)lock-
ade," writes liynker.sboek, " is virtnally relaxed, >' m/iilun orae
ohservantfc siiit." lAml Stowel', in restoring the vessel, suid :
" It is ] erfeetly clear that a blockade had taken place some
months before; and that the notification was conimnnicated to
the claimant's government, not only that a blockade wonld be
imposed, bnt of the most rigorous kind; and 1 cannot enteitain
the least doubt that the orders whi^h were given by our Ad-
miralty were conformable to it. It in impossilde to su])pose that
the orders for carrying into eflect a great measure, so materially
affecting other states, would not l)e given by government with
the utmost exactness. Yet, I cannot shut my eyes to a fact
that presses upon the court, that the blockade had not been duly
carried intc^ efl'ect. A tem[)orary and forced secession of the
lilockadiug force, from the accidents of wintls and storms, would
not be sufficient to constitute a legal relaxation. l>ut here ships
are stoinicd and examined and allowed to go in. The master
of this particuhir vessel says, that, in coming out, he saw no
ships for forty-eight hours. That might be accidental ; but when
ho entered, they were on the station ; yet no attempt was made
to prevent him from going in. In other cases, also, it appi'ars
that no force was applied for the purpose of enforcing the
blockade. There can be no doubt of the intention of the Ad-
miralty, that neutral ships should not be permitted to go in;
but the fact is, that it was not in every instance carried into
effect. What is a Uockade, but .3 prevent access by force ? If
the ships stationed on the spot to kee[> up the blockade will not
use their force for that purpose, it is impossible for a con it of
justice to say there wu . a Idockade actually existing at th.it time,
so as to Itind this vessel. I: is in vain for government to ini-
])Ose blockades, if those enqiloyed in the service will not enforce
tiiem. Tlie inconvenience is very great, and spreads far l)i'\ond
tlie individual case ; reports are eagerly circulatc'd that the
blockade is raised; foreigners take advantagi? of the informal ion ;
the property of innocent persons is ensnared, and the honour of
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our own country is involved in the mistake.'' (3 Robinson 147.)
All nominal blockades, variously styled, " paper blockades "
and " cabinet blockades," fire unlawful, as being stretches of
belligerent rights, and it makes no difference whether they are or
are not preceded by a proclamation. " A notice of blockade,"
writes Professor Bernard, " must not be more extensive than the
blockade itself. A belligerent cannot be allowed to proclaim that
he has instituted a blockade of all the ports of the etjomy,
within certain specified limits, when in truth he has nnly block-
aded some of theui. Such a course would introduce all the evils
of what is termed a " paper-blockade," and would be attended
with the grossest injustice to the commerce of neutrals. Accord-
ingly, a neutral is at libtirty to disregird such a notice, and is
not liable to the penalties attending a breach of blockade for
afterwards attemptiug to enter one of the ports which really are
blockaded." (a)
The popular idea is that paper blockades are a Brtish in*
vention, but in reality the French were the first to hit upon
that happy substitute for an efficient fleet. Thus she pro-
claimed a paper blockade of Great Britain in 1739, and again
in 1756, in 1796, in 1797, and once more in 1800, but all these
blockades were totally disregarded by the neutral powers. It is
certain that at the present day, no prize court would condemn a
vessel for breach of such a blockade.
Blockade, to use Phillimore's epigrammatic expression, arises
from " the right of tiie belligerent to prohibit the commerce of
the neutral with all besieged and blockaded places, and the duty
of the neutral scrupulously to abstain from all intercourse with
them." (b) The right of blockade is looked upon by all British
writers on International Law as being one of the clearest and
most incontrovertible rights of belligerents, but most Continental
writers take a very different view of the matter, and there is
at the present day a strong tendency to modify the harshness of
(a) Bernard's Neutrality of Great Britain, p. 231.
(l.)Op. Cil. CCL.,XXXV.
13
duty
the doctrine of Blockade, as elaborated during the Napoleonic
wars when Great Britain practically ruled the seas. On the
one hand nearly all the British and American writers uj)hold
the right of a belligerent to annoy the enemy, even though,
within eertiiiu limits, he inflicts injury upon a third i)arty. On
the other hand many Continental writers uphold the doctrine
that neutrals ought not to be interfered with at all, or at least
to a very limited extent.
Blockade is a clear limitation of the rights enjoyed by neutrals
during time of peace, for it is the assertion of the right of a
belHgerent to prevent the passage of all neutral vessels into a
luirticular seaport at that belligerent's will and pleasure. Neutral
trade suiters immensely by a blockade, when, as in the late civil
war in the United States several thousands of miles of coast are
blockaded, and Cauchy remarks that a blockade is " la 2>^h«
grave atteiute qui piusse itre porUe par la guerre an droit de
neatref*." (a)
The bloi;kading force must be actually present, sufficiently
near to the blockaded port to prevent communication, and this
common-sense view of the matter has been continued l»y
numerous treaties, particularly by that between Great Britain
and Itussia in 1801, which terminated the Armed Neutrality.
But if the blockailing force is driven off' by a storm, the opera-
tion of the blockade is not suspended, and vessels attempting to
run the blockade would be liable to capture and condemnutiun.
Blockade-runners are liable to capture at a great distance
from the blockaded port. Thus during the war between Russia
and Turkey (1854-50) the latter power proclaimed a lilockade of
the entire Russian coast of the Black Sea, and maintained that
blockade by an adequate force. In addition, two cruisers were
stationed in the Bosphorus, so that blockade-runners escajjing
the Black Sea squadron would almost certainly be captured be-
fore reaching their home-port. The owners of some captured
blockade-runners, mostly Greeks, pleaded before the Turkish
(a) Caucby, toin. II>| p. 19ti.
u
prizo -courts, tliat, haviuc? escnped tho vessels stationed in the
lihii'k Sea they were no lonjijer lial>le to capture. All were cnn-
cleuiiied, iiowever, on the ^Tound that they had nut ruaehed their
honii'-] torts when captured.
A blockade must be <,'ent!ral iu its elleets, and iR'lh'j^ci'c iits
cannot grant to each other, or to the enemy, itrivilegcs denied to
iieutiids. Thus durini^ the Crimean war, tlie French, IJrilish
and Russian governments jtermitted their subjects to trade at
the liidtic ports of liussia at a time when tliey were bhtckatleil
by ..Hied stjuadrons, at the samc^ time ili.iL llu \ t^mlcixoiui i lo
exclude neutrals from such trallic. Pmii in the test case ..f
Thi- Francish-a, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
held that such a blockade was nf)t a legal blockade and that the
coidiscated vessels und cargoes must l)e restored, (a)
lUockades are not confined to sea-ports, fur a roadster 1 may
bo bhtckaded, or the mouth of a river, or, in fact, any ])urtiou
of hostile coast. In the year 180G, tlu; KmperorNaiioleon con-
tended that "the right of blockade, according to reason and the
usage of civilized nations, is oidy applicabU' to fftrtilied places,"
and he challenged the right of Great Britain to "extend the
right of l)lockade to unfortitiiul cities ami jtorts, to harbours and
the mouths of rivers," and this view Was supported by Lucliesi-
Palli, a leading Italian writer on International I.aw. But Masse,
Ortolan and Manning all agree that the right of l)lockade applies
to fortified places as well as to unfortified mercantile towns, and
Wildman and rhillimore do not even mi'Ution the theory that
blockade must be confined to unfortified towns. The great
object of a blocknde is not so much to comjud the surrender of
the |»lace as to force the enemy, by jnessure uj)on his financial
and (Commercial resources, to listen to reasonable proposals fi.'
peace, and, clearly, goods can be as easily transported into
iinlortified jdaces as into foitified ones.
.Vt the present day, the term Blockaile is commoidy restricted
to the closing of a port by a force of ships of war, and blockades
(a) 10 Moore, PC. 3G.
15
by sea and land are now comparatively rare, the blockade of
Genoa in the year 1800 havin<; been tlielast of that doscrijition
on a great scale. Besides neutials, in ti-e very nature of things,
can have but little to do with lilockades by land.
A difference exists between a Siege and a r>lockade whi('h is
often of imiKirtanee. A siege is \indertaken with the view of
capturing the placj bosiegL'd, while liij ohjeet of a Idockatle is
to cripple the commerce of the enemy by preventing neutrals
from trading with him. l>ut, as a matter of fact, all besieged
places may be said to bo ))ot.h besieged and bloekadcd at the
same time.
The declaration of a blockade is an act of sovereign power
which, as it jiresses very severely upon neutral nations, should
not be intensified by careless administration. l>ut the declara-
tion of a blockade is not one of the sovereign acts which cannot
be delegated. And so a naval olHcer, acting in a distant jjartof
the world, may j»roclaim a blockade, for he must possess poW(;r
to act as well against the commerce of the enemy as against his
naval and military forces. Pliilliuiore holds that, "if a com-
mander so circumstanced did not originally possess this author-
ity and it should appear that he had acted irregularly, and with-
out orders, this is an affair between him and his government,
and the blockade would hardly be imj)eachable hy the Neutral
on that ground ; certainly not if that government, by its sub-
sequent conduct, had adopted his act ; this would be on the
principle rafilinbitio maiidafo a'quij)arafiir retrospectively
legitimate what had been done liy their ollicei-." (a)
This is undoubtedly the standard doctrine, and yet in those
days of telegraphs it is dillicult U) imagine a naval ollicei- so
situated that he is compelled to declare a l)l(ickade without con-
sulting his government. And even in the ])re-telegraph days the
courts refused to recognize such actions within the limits of
Europe. Thus in the leading eise of Tlw Rolla^ Lord Stowell
laid down that the power of a naval commander is limited in
(a) Op. cit. CCL XXXVIII.
u
Europe, " where government is almost at hand to superintend
the course of operations ; and that a commander going out to a
distant station may reasonably be supposed to carry with him
such a portion of the sovereign authority delegated to him as
may be necessary to provide for the exigencies of the service oa
which he is employed." (6 liobinson, 367.)
If a naval officer enforces a blockade illegally, through ignor-
ance occasioned by the neglect of his government, tlien he
must be indemnified by his government. In the case of
TIw Mentor Lord Stowell said : — " If an act of mischief is
done by the King's officers in a place where no act of hostility
ouglit to have been exercised, it does not necessarily follow that
mere ignorance of that fact would protect thy officers from civil
responsibility. If by articles, a place or district was put under
the Queen's peace, and an act of hostility was afterwards com-
mitted therein, the injured party might have a right to resort to
a court of )>vize for compensation ; and if the officer acted through
ignorance, his own government must ])rotect him ; for it is the
duty of government, if they put a oertain district within the
King's peace, to take care that due notice shall be given to those
persons by whose conduct that peace is to be maintained ; and
if no such notice has been given, nor due diligence used to give
it, and a breach of the peace is committed through the ignorance
of those persons, they are to be boriie harmless at the expense
of that government, whose duty it was to have given that notice."
(1 Robinson, 183.
A neutral must have some means of obtaining notice of the
changed condition of affairs introduced by a blockade, and, there-
fore, the party charged with violating a blockade must be
proved to be aware of its existence.
The almost universal practice is for a formal notification to
be made by the block ding power to all neutral powers. " To
make a notification effectual and valid," said Lord Stowell, in
The Holla, " all that is necessary is that it shall be communi-
cated in a credible manner ; hence, though one mode may be
erintend
out to a
vitli him
3 him as
rvice oa
;h ignor-
theii he
case of
schief is
liostility
low that
•om civil
lit under
rds com-
resort to
I through
it is the
thin the
to those
led ; and
to give
,'norance
expense
notice."
e of the
, there-
ust be
iation to
"To
well, in
ramuni-
may be
17
moro formal tlum anotlior, yetany cMinmunication wliicji brings it
to fli(! knowliMlg(3 (if tlio I'Hrtv, in a way which could Icavo no
doubt in lii.s mind as to the authcnlicity of the intoi'mation,
would be that which o\igi»t to govt-ru his conduct, and will be
binding upon him. It is at all tini'- most convenient that the
blockade should bo declared in a public and distinct manner,
instead of being left to creep out from iho consuiiuences [iruduced
by it." ((■) Robinson, 307.)
Then, after giving such notijo, tlu' responsibility of making
tho blockade known to its subjects r 'sts with each of the jtower.^
notified. Lord .Stowell, in his fam hk Jadguient in cast! of The
Nc'idiiiimi, said: — "The effect of a ii ititicition to any foreign
government would clearly be to in lide all the individn ils of
that nation; it would bo nugatory if individuals were allowed
to plead their ignorance of it; it is t!it! duty of foreii^n govern-
ments to communicate the infornia' mii to their snljccts, wliose
interests they are bound to proteei. I shall hold, therifore,
that a neutral master can never be h 'ard to aver against a noti-
ficati(Ui of Itlockade that he was ign .,ant of it. If \u'. is really
ignorant of it, it maybe subj;!ct it lepresentation to lis own
government, and maj' raise a claim ■; c unpiMisation I'lom them,
but it cannot be a })lca in tlu; court nl' a belligerent. In the case
of a blockatle de facto only, it may >' otherwise ; but t!iis is a
case of l»l(jckade by notifiention. A i ilher distinction bi'tweeu
a notified Iiiot-kade and a blockad • xisting \\.-. he port is to be considered
as closed, and from the moment of s tting p(jit to s.iil to such
a destination, the offence of violatiiu the blockade is c unidete,
and the property engaged in it sul)j i to confiscation. It may
be different in a blockade existing d farty
in order to show that it has been violated." (a)
In giving judgment in the (;asj of TItc Ili'nr'irh and Maria,
Lord Stowelloliserved: — " it is certaiidy necessary that a block-
ade should Ik! intimated to neutral merchants in some way or
othjr. It m ly bj n)tified in a public and solemn maimer by
declaration to foreign governments ; and this mode would al-
wavs be most desirable, although it is somelimes omitted in
praetii'-S but it may co:nmi:i:;j also d: fUcto, \)y a blockading
force giving notice on the spot to those who come from a dis-
tant', an 1 wlio may, therefore, be ignorant of the fact. Fcssc^s
goititj ill are in that case entitled to a notice before they can
be justly liable to the conseciuences of breaking a blockade ;
but I tak" it to bj quite otherwise with cckxcIs cohi'iikj out of
the port which is the object of blockade. Tliere no notice is
necessary after the blockad.3 his existed de facto for any length
of tini'i ; till continued fact is itself a sutlii3ient notice. It is
impossible for those within to be ignorant of the forcible sus-
pension of their commerce ; the notoriety of the thing supersedes
the necessity of [)articular notice to each ship. The sight of one
vessel would not certainly be sufficient notice of a blockade."
(1 Robinson, 147.)
But a bhxjkade may exist without a public declaration. The
fact duly notified to an individual on the spot is of itself sufti-
cient ; for public notifications between governments can be
meant only for the information of individuals ; but if the in-
dividual is personally informed that purpose is still better ob-
tained than by a public declaration. (Lord Stowell, The Mer-
curius, 1 Eobiuson, 82.)
(a) Wheaton's Elements of International Law, Eng. Edit §514.
10
or goiicral
utu ii lej^al
3e of such
Mpieucu of
i.slicd ])ub-
1 block tide
> the iiarty
id Moria,
at a block-
lue way or
luaiuier by
would al-
oinitted in
blockading
I'roin a tlis-
t. Vessels
e they can
blockade ;
i'l n(j out of
o iKJticc is
liny length
CL'. It is
cilde siis-
ipor.sedes
,dit of one
jlockade."
it ion. The
Iself suffi-
its can be
if the in-
bcttcr ob-
The Mer-
su
In accordance witli this ruling the jirizc courts of (Ircat
Britain and of tlie United States agree in holding that notice to
the govennnent i^e(|uivalent to notice to all its subjeets. There
is not, however, anything like; uniformity in this inii>ortant
matter of notice, and the only uniform j)ractice among nations
is that when a blockade has l)ecr»me nuite notorious, every neu-
tral vessel attempting to enter the blookadeil port shall be ])re-
sumed to know of the existence of th • blockade. Thus during
the Lite Civil War in the United States the blockade of Char-
leston was so notorious that a neutral vessel attenijiting to niii
till ijiuckade would have been seized, even though its govern-
nu-nt had not been notified of the blockade.
Lord Stowell in giving judgment in case of Tlw Adi'hiklc
remarked : — "Sujipose a notilii;ation to be made to Sweden and
Denmark it would become the general topic of conversition,
and it would be scarcely possible; that it shoidd not travel to
the ears of a Hremen man, and thougli it might not be so emly
known to him as to the sul)jects of the states to whi(;h it was
immediately addressed, yet in ])rocess of time it must i"ach
him, and must be supposed to imjMtse the same observance <»f it
u])on him ; it would strongly affect him with the kro'vh;(lge of
the fact that the blockade wus y court, I will carry out a cargo.* It would
be a very fraudulent omission to take no notice of what is a
subject of general notoriety in the jilace." (2 Robinson, 111.)
Due and sufficient time for the notification of a blockade
must be allowed according to circumstances. 'I'l^e time so
allowed has been lessened by telegraphs, steamships and railways,
and the only decisions on the \)oint were given long befijre these
mighty agents were dreamt of. In the year 1799 Lord Stowell
restored a Danish ship — The Jonye Petronella — which had
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li'M'M ciiiitun»il oil" tli(! poiist of IIuHmikI ou Afardi 2Stli, on tlio
<'i'ouiily was " that the
practice of the United States was not to issue sueh notices, iiiit
to notify the blockade individually to eai.'h vessel aj^proaching
the blockaded port, ami to inscribe a memorandum of the notice
having been given in the ship's papers. No vessel is liable to
seizure which hail not been individually warned. The [ilan had,
I was assured. l)een found to be in pr.ictice the most conveni-
ent and the fairest for all parties. The fact of th-^re being block-
ading ships present to give the warning was thi best Q«>tice and
best proof that the port was actually and ettectually blockailjd."
The British authorities hold to two kinds of blockade, the
first a blockade dv facto, the essential element of which is the
actual presence of an efficient force in front of the blockaded
port, and in this kind of blockade no vessel is held guilty unless
21
h, on tlio
to fon-iija
k a wci'lc
)Nvk'(.lg'J uf
coiuUiinn-
i ciirj^o at
lijj;t'ii('t'. uf
isiiiti coii-
iistruclive
I a iKttili-
frtiin tlie
outtT the
iY writers
lul ill nut
urious.
ly ')(■ the
10 liiitisli
er it was
he aetual
tiuit the
tices, l)iit
triiachiii^
le notice
lial)le to
Ian had,
conviMii-
I1L» l)l0(3k-
>tice anil
cka seeond kiml of hluckadc is l»y iiotili-
cation toiii-ntral i)0W(>rs, acc.onijKinii.'d of course liy thi> fact. I'hil-
linutre remarks that in "tlu; former case, when the fact ecascs
(otherwise!, indee(l, than hy an aecicU'iit (»r tht; shifting' of the
wind) there! is imm tdiattily an end of the hlockadc; hut wln-re
the faetis aefonij>aniedhy a ptildie notilication fioni the ^uvcin-
inent of a l)ellij,'t'rent eonnlry to neutral ^governments, /hIiik}
facie, the bloekade must be supposed to exist till it has hi-en
publicly repealeil." (a)
Notiliealion (if lilockade should always be made to the sub-
jeets of the st r > imposjni^r that Idockade, and also to all cruisers
of tluj bloekai.. ^' power.
Ai:iiin, the deedaration of blockadi; must not only bele!.;al and
regular, but it must be speeitic as well. In the well-known
case of The Henrivk and J/ar/a, Lord Stowell deeiort," and ujion his sayiuL,' that he must proceed
accordini^ to his bill of ladinet\veen flreat Britain and tlie United States it was pro-
vided that " whereas vessels fre([uently sail for a port or ])lace
lu'lougiugto iin enemy, without knowing that the same is eitlier
hcsieged, blockaded or invested, it is agreed that every vessel so
circumstanced may be turned away from such port or place;
but she shall nut be detained, nor h'ir cargo, if not contraband,
be confiscated, unless after notice, slie shall again attempt to
enter."
Untler this treaty, the mere fact of clearing out for a block-
aiied port would not sullice for the condemnation of a vessel,
nnk'ss the olUcers of the vessel had been warned otf by the
bluckaiUng s([uadron.
But, acc(jrding to Lord Stowell, previous warning under
treaties vn not in all cases indispensable. Thus in the case of
The, Columbia, an Aniericjin vessel, captured by British cruisers.,
he, in condemning both ship and cargo, observed : — " It has
l)('en ai'gued that, by the American treaiy, there luust be a pre-
vious warning ; certainly where vessels L^ail without a knowledge
of the blockadfi a notice is necessary ; l)ut if you can affect them
with a knowledge of that fact, a warning then becomes an idle
corcunouy of no use, and, therefore, not to be required. (1 Robin-
son, 150.)
Even the misinformation, or want of information, of foreign
authorities as to the alleged raising of a blockade, will not be
received as an excuse. Thus in the case of The Spes and Irene
(1803), it was argued that tlie masters of these vessels had been
informed Ity the Consul of Hamlmrg at Archangel that he con-
jectured that the blockade of the Elbe had been raised. Lord
Stowell rejected this })lea, observing: — "It had been said that
no intelligence of the blockade had been received from tlie
('onsul of the State of Hamburg; though I must presume it had,
because, as the notilication was made to the Consul (of Hamburg)
here in London, it was his duty tt) make the 3ommunication to
the consuls of his government in foreign ports ; and as the in-
23
5el as well
Tioiity of
:- was pro-
rt or J)] ace
le is (Mtlier
^ vessel so
or place ;
)ntrabaiul,
LttciU[)t to
)r a block-
' a vessel,
otf by the
ng under
10 case of
h crtiiserS;
-" It has
) be a pre-
cnowiediijc
fleet them
8 an idle
(1 Piobin-
of fureiga
ill not be
nd Irene
had been
it he con-
d. Lord
said that
fr(jni tlie
lie it had,
laniburg)
cation to
IS the in-
formation had arrived at Hamburg, and had Icen actually com-
municated from thence to Archangel )>y private cliannels, the
same communication must be supjiosed to have been made fi(tni
])ublic . ..ihority to the public minister; or if nut, if there iiad
been any lU'glect, the consecjuence must be imjtuted only ti» the
state and its oflicers, wlio are ans\veral)le to their subjects for
the conseciuences of their neglect. If the information of foreign
ministers could be decnu^d sutU(;ient to exempt a party from all
penalty, there would Ik; no end of srvch excuses. Courts of
justice are compelled, I think, to hold as a jtrincijtle of ntfcessary
caution that the misinformation (»f a foreign minister cannot be
received as a justification for sailing in actual breach of an (exist-
ing blockade." (5 Robinson, 7'.*.)
Intoxication on the part of tlie masttu" will not be received in
excui^c of breach of blockade. In condemning I'/ie Sli('i>hci'(l('ss,
which had again and again broken the blockade of Havre, L(jrd
Stowcill renuu'ked : " If such an excuse could be ae per-
mitted to stultify himself by the jaetended or even real use of
intoxicating li(|Uors of which, even if it were a thing to be
examined, the court could in no instance ascertain the truth of
the fact. The owners of the vessel have appointed him their
agent, and they must in law be bound by his imprudence as
well as by his fraud." (5 ltol)inson, liG'2.) In the same judg-
ment the sami! high authority held that where a master, in a
state of intoxication, persists in a course involving a bnuu-h of
blockade, it is the j, Lord
Stowell remarked that, " although it might be hard to refuse a
neutral liberty to retiie witli a cargo already laden, and l)y that
act already become neutral pro])erty, yet, after the commencement
of a bh)ckade, a neutral cannot be allowed to interfere in any
way to assist the ex])ortation of the property of the enemy." (1
Robinson, 92.) From the case of Hie RolJa, it ajijifars that
the cfturt will hold every cargo to be a fresh jiurcliase which
is not delivered, previously to the notiticatioii, either on board
the neutral vessel itself or in iu/Jiters alongside that vi-ssel. (6
liol)in3on, 807.) ]>ut goods ij? a varehovse iaiunA be shipped.
This doctrine is now received in some quarters with a certain
amount of d re-
quired of military persons engaged in the command of an ardu-
ous enterprise." (1 llobinson, 1)3.)
Casimer Perier, a distinguished French publicist, argues that
" the validity of a blockade should depend on a simultaneous
attack by land, that a port should not be considered as block-
aded unless invested also on the laud side. Otherwise, while
the general commerce of neutrals is interdicted, and they are
subjected to the greatest sacrifices, a neighbouring state may
sup])ly, through rivers, c.inals or railroads, with the products of
its soil and industry, a city open on all sides, and whose }iort
alone is blockaded." (a)
In some cases special treaties have determined the precise
amount of force requisite to constitute a valid blockade. Thus, in
(a) Revue des Deux Moiides, 18G2, p. 434.
31
eel tliat such
tUt(3 u I(>sjls employed on that
sevvice wove dYivex^ close to tJie Afr led II c > '»f fact an it were,
ly be de-
e, unless
hoiild al-
ockado is
will, and
CO, there
Ms that
ade will
though
•lety, as
lutiioient
resumed
uisite to
original
ig cruis-
for that
ed upon
187.
85
as nn unlawful art. The writer inclines to ludieve, iiDWiJvcr,
that after a blockade has \>w\i discontiniu'd, it would be looked
upon as resunu'd if a strong squadron retunietl and gave warn-
ing to each vessel attempt 'iig to enter. Sii]»pose, for example,
that a Confedtu'ate scpiadron had raised the blockade of Mol)ile,
which, however, was promptly re-blockaded by a United States
squadron of superior force; but, in the meantime, neutral ves-
sels hearing of the raising of the blockade, sail fir Mobile, and
on nppro;:cliing the port receive warning from the blockading
cruisers, then surely they would not be justified in continuing
the attemi)t.
According to the Bi-itish doctrine, as formulated by Lord
Stowell and accepted by the United States ])rize courts, the
mere act of sailing for a blockature and not supplied afterwards. In giving
judgment in the case oiThe Exchange, hi^ Lordship remarked :
— "The cases cited, which are familiar to us all, were cases of
a supervening illegality, where it was shown that the owner of
the cargo stood clear of any possible intention of fraud, and that
by ))roofs found on board at the time of the cafitur'', and not
supplied afterwards. For instance, where orders have been given
for goods prior to the existence of blockail(j, and it appeared that
there was not time for countermanding the shipment afterwards,
the court has held the owner of the cargo not responsible for
the act of thj eniuny's shipper, who might have an interest in
sending off the goods in direct opposition to the interest of his
principal. And the same indulgence has been exercised where
there was no knowledge of the blockade till aftt'r the ship had
sailed, and the master, after receiving the information, obstinately
persisted in going on to the port of his original destination."
(Edwards, 43.)
(a) Op. cit., CCCXVIIL
(b) Op. cit.,§519b.
49
H'ked :
ses of
ner of
1 that
1 not
rivea
that
ards,
for
st ia
of Ilia
A' here
had
lately
tion."
Jiiit in thc! liiiMoiis rase of Tlw ('ulii)uhla, TiOi(lSt(j\vell Motuna
to hold that thi; penalty til" hniiikiii",' a Idockade attaches to the
property of persons ignorant td that lad, hy the ndseondiict of
the n»ast»;r, or of the eousii^nee, if Inf rusted ivith power over the
vesfiel and cavf/o. L(»rd Stowell said : " This vessel eaiue from
America, and, as it iipitcars, with innocent intentions cjii the part
of the American owners, I'or it was not known at that time in
America that Amsterdam was in a state of investment. The
master by Ids instructions was to go to Handmrg, and put
himself under the direction of Messrs. Done »i: Co. They, there-
fore, were to have the entire tlominion over this ship and cargo.
We have this fact, then, when the master sailed from Ham-
burg to Amsterdam, the blockade was perfectlv well kuovvu,
both til him and the consignees; but their desis^n waa to
seize the opportunity of entering wiiilst the winds kept up
the blockading force at a distance. Now, under these cir-
cumstances, I have n(» hesitation in s;iyiny no nic;ins follows that the ownci'.s ol
the eai\L;(> stand on the same ibolinn. That may liave been ship-
ped in consequence of criminal oi'ders direetini; it to be sent on
any opportunity of 8lipi)in!^' out. It is, therefore, n(jt to be
argued that the releasi; of the ship is any conclusive cvitlence
respecting the cargo. An absolute order (bning the (continuance
of the blockade, if executed, must Ite considered to be a breach
of the blockade; nor do I think that a provisional order, direct-
ing shipments to be made when ihe lilockade should be raiseil
will avail lor indulgence, should the blockade actually exist when
the order is carried into execution. The owners must take upon
themselves to answer for the undue execution of the order, and
make the shippers answerable to them. If this rule was not
adopted, there would be no end of shipments made during a
blockade, whilst there would be nobody at all responsible for such
acts of misconduct." (3 Itobinson, 147.)
The judgment in case of Tlte Junyfrau Maria Schrv&der
illustrates another law of blockad(i which originated with Lord
Stowell, namely, that it is not necessary that the ciiptor should
assign any n^ason to the master of the ollcnihns.' vessel. " He
takes at his ow u peril, and du his own responsibility, to answer in
costs and damuges, for any »'''ongful cxeicise of the rights of cap-
ture. At the same time i' ay be ii matter of convenience that
some ileclaration should ;.. made, l)ecause it is possible, that if
the grounds ale stated, it ma} be in the jiowerofa neutral master
to give such reafioiis as may explain away the suspicion that
is suggested." (i! Wobinson, loL*.)
Lastly, in the ease of The Klsil)i\ Lord StowcU decided that, if
the master (»f a vessel, at the time of sailing, |iut his ship under
anneil convoy, whose instructions he is ]»resumed to know, the act
is illegal, and binds both ship and cargo. (5 Robinson, i/'3.)
iil»vo[)<'r
t be un-
["he ship
rnt'is ol
I'll sliip-
! sent on
)t to be
,'vidence
tinuance
I breach
L', diiect-
be miseil
:isl when
ike upon
dev, and
was not
during a
3 for such
'ichra'.Jer
vith ].ord
or ^jhould
d. " He
answer in
ts ot'cap-
ence that
e, that if
lal master
ieion tliat
ed that, it
hip under
iw, the act
jn, iVd.)
INDKX.
AnsKNCKs, •i,M<;i.ic,M:il. ..f il,,' Mo,l<;i,Iln- M,iiMilrni,. ),,,,,. :,\,
AiTfU, hldckihlc tiio iv-si'iiti;il .•Iciiu'iil c,r \,-^:i\ l.I,.ck;i.|c. I(».
AMKIUrAN-l.lM.-fi,.t. M. t.. n„li(i,>,llin„. 'JO; vi,.,v- ni;, ,„,,,.- \nu-C, '.Vl ; viows on
the rctiiciiiciit nf iiciitnil vc-^.^.'l.. rnmi li|i..kiii|.'cl |.,irl, L'.'i.
AriMi:n \.'iitr;ililo.- ol. 4 ; Poucp.. .■,>iiii...>ii,j:. .-,.
B.
Bkllic.errn'ts cannot -rant to oaeh ,.! l,or. t to rh.. ..n...ny. priviloi^o:. denied to
neutral,-'. U.
Berlin- Decree, the (Xov. 21, l.sOd). (i.
BRiTr.ndootrineofhlo.k:,.!.. ./. y-,,... „nd >lo,.kMd.. I.v notification. -^O ; -„hjects
in;iy not trade with a porf nio.ka led l,y HrUi.!, cn.i.ers. through the interven-
tion of a neutral, Ju.
Blockadk during the Crimean w.MM>: during the Civil war in the United State.
!•: not confined to >ea-|,ort,s 1-1: n,M>» he general in it? effect^-, 14: h/land
and ,«ea, 14; and ,-'iege, differenee hetween, 1.".: of (uMioa. 1.^: ,/,- f„rt., ..r,rl
Idockude hy notification, ditlerenee between. 17: may e.vist witho.it public
declaration, 18: .-hould be notified to .subject, of blockarling power "I • mu-t
be , specific as well a legal and re,'nlar. Jl : nu.M he ah.o|,rte. L'.S:'canno. be
inaintamed again,^t a neutral j.or:, .;| : muM bo eontinuou>. :\1 ; i,. rai^ci if
blockading s,,uadron is .Iriveo oil hv ., h..-.de force. :V1 ; i.s viti„(e,| hv absence
of ,snir,eient force. :;:; : when ouee ,■,,-.! ,■: nlvl.e re^nnnd hv no't ificat ion
-I : nof violated by owner .-ending v^sel ,o blockaded port, he being ignorant
ol the l.ici, ;;(;; l.roken l.y eoniJng out ,i. mn.h ,i- by going in, ".'.i.
TJ,,urKvn,v., ernisevs n,ay be 1,1,.,,, oil -he l,l,„.kade,| p,.,-, without vil iai in- the
'''"'•'^^ ■ •'' • '"'>■ ""'• l'-'^'' tlo-u- latino to ,.|,:,-e bloc-kade- runners. :;i."
KlorKAI-Kl. po,t, .s.ilnig lor, knowing if ,„ l,e l,|,„.ka,|ed. i- a breach ol hloekade.
R.,"rKAnK.-Ki.NM:„sliab|eio,.:,p,n,ea.a^re., ,|i-,;„i,.e from blockaded port. K!:
set free il ■•apliircl alter discont iniinoe ,,|- l,|,„.K |,|,,_ j;
BvNKEUy.lOKKon relaxed blo.kadc. II . .,n Mo|.,tj„„ „( l,|oekade, ,';;!.
c
Captor need not ii,=.sigii reason for capture. ,"iO.
Calthv on blockade, 1).
Ckrtikicvtk.s of origin. Il,
CiirKHiKV. C,.I,. im snlli, lent foree, J'.i,
roMcn,soi, V sale of eargo in b|o,.kad.:i port no, exeu.c ,;,, |,,.,„.,, „,- ,,,„.,,,,,^ ^^,
having gone in vidiinlarily, 27.
er
CoM-iscATiON „s penally of Molation of l,Io,.kade. 4.; : of vessel. 1,1: of enriro 4.^
< ONVov. taking ol, binds both ship and carm.. 60. "
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D.
Declaration of hloekade must not lio iiiiciisificd by carclcfis adiuiiii.':tration, 15 ;
must he accoinpauicd hy iictiiiil invostiinMit , '_",!.
Distinction between car,n
E.
Empress Catherine II. nt' Rus^sia «n lilockaile, 4.
BmbAROo, American, on French and British commercial ,-^iiiiii)inj; (I)eeeinl)er, '■ '^"),7
ErroNeol's information from blockading; crui..'!.
Genoa and the Roman slate.-^, port.« of, closed to IJritish commerce (1796), 5.
Goods sent in belore l)lockade may be withdrawn if foiiid unsaleable, 27.
(Jovernment must indemnify an othcer who has enforced a blockade illegally through
ignorance, l(i.
GoveRn.ments notitied of existence of blcK-kade miist nutifv their suh.jects, 17.
GroTIUS on the refusal of the Dutch to permit tlie Kiiglish (o enter Dunkirk, 3.
H.
Hanover, ports of, closed to l',ritisli commerce (isOti). .).
Hautefeuili-e on continued voyages. \\.
History of the Doctrine of Dlockade, ;!.
Illegal destination, concealed, presumptive evidence of intention to vhdate block-
ade, 36.
Interior countries may import and export thronjrh enemy's ports, 42.
Intoxication of master not an excuse lor breach nt hiiKkade, 23.
M.
Marshall, Chief Justice, on breach of blockade, "..V
Martens on blockade, \ : on jienalty of vicdation of bluikade. Mi.
Mental design to violnle l>lockaile, iinaccompanieil l-y Words, or r breach of blockade, 22.
53
tion, 15 J
)i M of
Napier, Sir Chnrlrp. on puffiripnt forcp, 2H.
Napolkcin on blnckmlp of tinf'ortifi(..l jilacri^, II.
NKfTRAL vosM-l inayiTliiv fn.,,, I.lockiHlcl |,o,-(. ,vit|, onrRo >liii,i„.,l l.cfoi-o notifira-
tion of hlockndo, 2.'! : vpssi-l in:iy iiink.' iii((iiirir.« in cii.M- of l)|ock,iilo ./. /-.in,,,
hut not, in c-.'iso of Mockiiflo hy notificnlion. .'IT : vcssrl nuisl not j;,, („,, ,|'p,.|r „
hlockaflo.l port. .'iS ; nirniiiinls niiiy not cox :UTRALS may carry on coninifM'co with bloi-kadi'il port by means of iniaiul ro
munications, 40; must be notifie an' officer
who has enforced a blockade illegally. Hi; ,„, i.oiilication ol b|„ckade, 16; on
distinction between blockade ,/<■ fa.t . and blockade by notification, 17; on the
duty of a government to notify its .-.ubjects of the e.xisience ol bl,,ckade." J 7 ; on
due time for knowledge of block.ide to spread, lil; on specific blockade. 21 ;
did not conuder previous warning under treaty indispensable in all cases!
22: on want of water and provisions as e.veusc for breach noniii(-c of (nvner, HT : on in-
li|n(k!i(lins cniipor.s ."T : on nontral vrfsclf. froinj;
lll.lck.Hlcil )
iii'i.
rv on rnninirrci" wii
111 ; nn li
;S: on In-ficli ol MocU.-nlf liy r<,'rc.-.-, .".'.t ; on nontnl rif,'ht
li MiN-kMilfil iHii-l liy nn'.'ins .if inland ronininniintion.
Iiln, kiolril liy r.riti-li rruis-
m riirlit "I interior cnunirif- tci
:til ol lirilisii .-nlijiil- tM tnnir \vitii |M'rl,
throiiuli till' in'crvnitidn d niiit riils,
inipori ,'iiiil ('\|H'i
I I inouirli :iii cufiny s in
rl. 12 ; I'n liln'riition
it Mix knilc-rnn-
nrrn. i
I cioinriil ^il'iir ili-rioit inniinir
it lilnil<,'ii|f, i:; ; nn I nnt innt il \ iiy i.i;<':
4:;. ,,n ;nlhi'-ii'n nl |Mn;iltv ilMiiii;,': nnc vov
CIV I
llZC'l llilWI'l ■ I" VI
:i;:r. i:
il.ii (' liliM k.oli . I I ; I'M nu'lil
ciK'niy .-
XOOll^ ^Vl
III
111 n nWll.
t;i ; nn rnnii: r.lti"ll a- |'
: nn riirli' of vc.-.cf- "t li.ilf-
.1 uciiti;il infrclinnt- In invfr
n^ilt V rit lircai li nl
hinck.ulc, lA ; on ili.-nn
•tinii 111 Mvrnn iiii\::n anil ^ (■
17 ; nil vi!:lil ot i\'i]iti
to ri'lipc ti
ria-nii lor riiitiirr. al
T.
Time nin.-; lie a
Treat V bt'twcfn
Inwcil for iu!\\> of liloekadc to iiin^ not an c\cii=r
for hrc.lrh nf lilork.'idc. J'
Whk.aton on |.rochiinalioii nl Mn.kad.', I >< ; on want nl tlic 11
ccpssarics nl lilc as nn
f life
rxcu-i'
tnr broacli of lilnckado. 2 I ; 011 distinction bctwoeii vessel and ca rj/;o. IS.
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