A Treatise of captures in war / by Richard Lee.

London : W. Clarke and Sons, 1803

2nd edition

7886

Lee on captures.

Captures in war.

Prize law.

War.

1. War, what it is

2. Whether a public declaration is necessary to make a war lawful

3. Of reprisals

4. Of the nature of war between enemies

the rights, which war gives over the person of the enemy

their extent and bounds

5. When moveable goods, and particularly ships, belonging to the enemy become the property of the captors?

6. Whether, and when, moveable things, and especially ships, may be given up to the re-captors?

7. How far the possession of immoveables gained in war may be extented

8. Whether actions and credits of the enemy, found amongst us when a war is begun, may be justly confiscated? and of the right to incorporeal things taken in war

9. Whether we may go to, or pursue an enemy into, the port or territory of a friend?

10. Of the state of war as to neutrals

11. Of those things which may not be carried to the enemy of our friends

12. Whether it is lawful to carry any thing to cities and ports, &c. when besieged?

13. Whether lawful goods are forfeited by means of unlawful ones?

14. Of the goods of friends, found in the ships of enemies

15. Of the goods of enemies found in the ships of friends

16. Of the right of postliminium, and whether things taken from the enemy, and brought into the territory of a friend, return to their postliminium?

17. Of private capture : and how far the employers of privateers, or the state whence they come, are bound for any injury done by the persons employed therein. discussion of the question, if a ship, not having a commission as a privateer, takes booty, to whome it belongs?

18. Of the method of trying prizes, taken in war: appeals, and costs

19. Whether it is lawful to insure the property of the enemy, or to inlist soldiers in the country of a friend?

20. Sect 1. Right of insurers after ransom

2. Contributions towards losses

3. Loan on conquered land

4. Hostages.

Donated by Dr J.M. Bennett, A.M. 17/10/2005.

Rare book has signatures of (Sir) Frances Forbes, J.B. Darvall (Sir John Bayley Darvall) and J.M. Bennett on front endpapers.

viii, 240 pages