This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... jurisdiction, is where he allows the troops of a foreign prince to pass through his dominions... "It is obvious that the passage of an army through a foreign territory will probably be at all times inconvenient and injurious, and would often be imminently dangerous to the sovereign through whose dominion it passed. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... jurisdiction, is where he allows the troops of a foreign prince to pass through his dominions... "It is obvious that the passage of an army through a foreign territory will probably be at all times inconvenient and injurious, and would often be imminently dangerous to the sovereign through whose dominion it passed. Such a practice would break down some of the most decisive distinctions between peace and war, and would reduce a nation to the necessity of resisting by war an act not absolutely hostile in its character, or of exposing itself to the stratagems and frauds of a Power whose integrity might be doubted, and who might enter the country under deceitful pretexts. It is for reasons like these that the general licence to foreigners to enter the dominions of a friendly iPower is never understood to extend to a military force; and an army marching into the dominions of another sovereign may justly be considered as committing an act of hostility; and, if not opposed by force, acquires no privileges by its irregular and improper conduct. It may, however, well be questioned whether any other than the sovereign power of the State be capable of deciding that such military commander is without a licence. "But the rule which is applicable to armies does not appear to be equally applicable to ships of war entering the ports of a friendly Power. The injury inseparable from the march of an army through an inhabited country, and the dangers often, indeed generally, attending it, do not ensue from admitting a ship of war, without a special licence, into a friendly port. A different rule, therefore, with respect to this species of military force has been generally adopted. If, for reasons of State, the ports of a nation, generally, or any particular ports, b...
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