O ELEMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. BY HENRY WHEATON, LL.D., = MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE COURT OF PRUSSIA; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES IN THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT BERLIN, ETC. ETC. FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION, BRINGING THE WORK DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY J. BERESFORD ATLAY, M.A., OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, Int 2335.20 HARVARD COLLEGE MAR 5 1910 LIBRARY Sumner Aunt LONDON: C. F. ROWORTH, GREAT NEW STREET, FETTER LANE, E.C. PREFACE TO FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION. MORE than twenty-five years have elapsed since Mr. A. C. Boyd, of the Middle Temple, first undertook the publication of an English edition of Wheaton's International Law. A second and a third edition passed through his hands, the latter in 1889, and now the publishers have requested me to revise the work and bring it down to date. In so doing, I have endeavoured to follow the lines laid down by Mr. Boyd. Wheaton's original text has been left untouched, and Mr. Boyd's additions as well as my own are distinguished by being printed in a smaller type. In the footnotes, however, consisting as they do, for the most part, of references to cases, treatises, and public documents, it seemed unnecessary to retain the square brackets which had previously differentiated those supplied by the editor from those of Wheaton himself. I should have wished, if it had been practicable without spoiling the look of the page, to have distinguished my share from the material accumulated by Mr. Boyd, and I trust that I shall be acquitted of any intention to assume credit which does not belong to me. Compared with his my labours have been light, but the course of history during the last fifteen years, the decisions of the law Courts, legislation on the Continent of Europe, as well as at home and in the United States, have necessitated an amount of modification and alteration which in the total is by no means inconsiderable. |