O

Oath as a means of securing performance of treaties, 551, 565

Observation, envoy's function of, 454, 455

Occupation of territory, 291-298

as a means of securing the performance of treaties, 566

conception of, 291

extent of, 295

how affected, 292

notification of, 294

object of, 292

Office central des transports internationaux, 517

Offices, international, 515-518

Official publications, 620

Oléron, Laws of, 56

Oliva, Peace Treaty of, 63

Olivart, Marquis de, 97, 103

Omnia rex imperio possidet, singuli dominio, 283

Ompteda, 103

Ontario, Lake of, 246, 247

Open Sea, 315

ceremonials on, 326

claims to sovereignty over parts of, 316

collisions on, 333

conception of, 321

fisheries in the, 348-353

freedom of, 201, 323-328

in time of war, 325

jurisdiction on, 329-339

legal order on, 324

navigation on, 326

neutralisation of parts, 325

piracy on, 339-348

powers of men-of-war over merchantmen on the, 335, 337

rationale for freedom of, 327

right of pursuit on, 336

shipwreck and distress on, 339

subsoil beneath the sea bed, 292, 357-361

telegraph cables in, 353-355

verification of flag on, 337

wireless telegraphy on the, 355-357

See also Vessel.

Operation of nature as a mode of losing territory, 312

Oppenheim, Heinrich Bernard, 96

Oppenheim, L., 104

Option:

loss of nationality through, 378

of inhabitants of ceded territory to retain their old citizenship, 290

Orange Free State, 304

Oregon Boundary dispute, 295

Ottoman law (1863), concerning protégés, 373

P

Pacta sunt servanda, 573

Pacta tertiis nee nocent nec prosunt, 563

Pactum de contrahendo, 546

Paladini, case of Salvatore, 408

Panama:

international position of the Republic, 182, 312

intervention in, 191

Panama Canal, 251, 592

Pan-American Conferences, 72, 405, 517

Pan-American Union, 517, 624

Pando, 97

Panther, case of the, 219

Papal Nuncio. See Nuncio.

Papal States, 157, 450

Par in parem non habet imperium, 169, 430, 460

Paris:

Convention for the protection of submarine telegraph cables, 354

Declaration of, 12, 68, 537, 569, 588

Peace Treaty of (1763), 64, 183, 314

Peace Treaty of (1856), 68, 190, 247, 268, 277, 325, 514, 549, 564, 575, 578

Peace Treaty of (1898), 72

Parkinson v. Potter, 467

Parlement Belge, case of the, 507

Parliaments, injurious attitude of, 216

Participation of third States in treaties:

accession, 568

adhesion, 569

good offices and mediation, 568

intervention, 568

Parties to treaties, 543-548

Parts of treaties, 552

Part-Sovereign States, 441

Passports:

dismissal of diplomatic envoys through delivery of, 455

of courier, 475

of diplomatic envoy, 448

Passport of vessels, 331

Peace Conferences at the Hague. See Hague.

Peace Treaty of:

Aix-la-Chapelle (1668), 62

Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), 64, 183

Carlowitz, 63

Christiania, 75

Copenhagen, 63

Frankfort, 290, 291, 606

Hubertsburg, 64

Kainardgi (1774), 441

Kardis, 63

Karlstad, 75, 135

Munster, 241

Nymeguen, 62

Nystaedt, 63

Oliva, 63

Paris (1763), 64, 183, 314

(1856), 68, 190, 247, 268, 277, 325, 514, 549, 564, 575, 578

(1898), 72

Prague (1866), 364

Pyrenees, 62

Rastadt and Baden, 63

Roeskild, 63

Ryswick, 63

San Stefano, 71, 190, 549

Seoul, 75

Shimonoseki, 72

Tilsit, 183, 186

Utrecht, 63, 183, 278

Versailles (1783), 64, 278

Westminster (1674), 319

Westphalia, 61, 151, 435, 587

Pearl fishery off Ceylon and in the Persian Gulf, 348

Peary, Admiral, 292

Pelagic Sealing Conference, 352

Persia, international position of, 164

Persian Gulf, pearl fishery in the, 348

Persona grata of diplomatic envoy, 451

Personal supremacy:

consequences of, 178

definition of, 177

restrictions upon, 183

violations of, 179

Personal union of States, 133

Pertille, 96

Petit cabotage, 607

Pharmacopœial formulas, unification of, 622

Philip II. of Spain, 316

Philippine Islands, 72

Phillimore, Sir Robert, 94, 99

Phosphorus. See White phosphorus.

Phylloxera conventions, 618

Physically impossible obligations, 549

Piédelièvre, 95, 100

Pierantoni, 96

Pillau, alliance of, 551

Pinkney, American commissioner, 513

Piracy, 203, 340-348

Pirata non mutat dominium, 346

Pirates:

jurisdiction over, 345

may be pursued into the territorial maritime belt, 346

Plague. See Sanitary Conventions.

Platen-Hallermund, case of Count, 306

Plebiscite concerning cession of territory, 289, 364

Pledge, 233, 288, 566

Pleins pouvoirs, 447

Podiebrad, 58

Poelitz, 96

Poland, 566

partition of, 151, 310, 370

Polish revolution (1830), 413

Political agents:

public, 509

secret, 510

spies, 510

Political crime, conception of, 414-421

Political criminals, non-extradition of, 411-422

Pollicitations, 546

Polson, Archer, 94

Pope, position of the, 70, 157-162. See also Holy See.

Port Arthur leased to Russia, 233, 288

Porto Rico, 72

Portugal:

her claims to parts of the Open Sea, 316

international position of, 77

passage of troops through territory of, 280

republic proclaimed in, 76

Position:

of armed forces abroad, 501

of consuls, 493

of diplomatic envoys, 455

of diplomatic envoys as regards third States, 469

Positivists, the, 90, 98

Postal Union, Universal, 516

Powers of men-of-war over merchantmen of all nations, 335, 337

Pradier-Fodéré, 95, 100

Prague, Peace Treaty of (1866), 364

Precedence among envoys, 444

Predicates of heads of States, 174

Prescription, 308-311

Presidents of republics:

not sovereigns, 433

position of, 434

Private International Law:

conception of, 4

Hague Conventions concerning, 623, 624

Privateer, 341, 342

Privateering abolished by Declaration of Paris, 69, 588

Privileges of:

consuls, 494

couriers, 475

diplomatic envoys, 456

judges of the Prize Court, 522

members of legation, 473

members of the Tribunal of the Court of Arbitration, 521

Proconsul, 487

Projectiles, Convention concerning, 594

Protection, treaties of, 604

Protection:

envoy's function of, 454

of citizens abroad, 371, 372, 396, 492

Protectorate, 144

Protectorate as precursor of occupation, 296

Protégés, 371

Protest as an international transaction, 538

Protestant States, 449

Prussia becomes a Great Power, 64

Pseudo-guarantees, 602

Publications, official, 620

Public Health, international office of, 518, 621

Public political agents, 509

Pufendorf, 4, 89, 112

Punctationes, 546

Pursuit into the Open Sea, right of, 336

Pyrenees, Peace of the, 62

Q

Quabbe, 604

Quidquid est in territorio est etiam de territorio, 178, 231

Qui in territorio meo est, etiam meus subditus est, 231

R

Rachel, 90

Radiotelegraphy, 236

office of, 516

on the Open Sea, 355

Radiotelegraphic Convention, 355

Union, 614

Railway transports and freights, Union concerning, 614

Office of, 517

Rank of States, 171

Rastadt and Baden, Peace Treaty of, 63

Ratification of treaties:

by whom effected, 558

conception of, 553

effect of, 561

form of, 557

not absolutely necessary, 554

not to be partial or conditional, 559

rationale for, 554

refusal of, 556

space of time for, 555

Rationale for the freedom of the Open Sea, 327

Real Union of States, 123, 131, 134

Rebus sic stantibus, clause of, 280, 573-574

Recall of diplomatic envoys, 477

Reception of diplomatic envoys, 449, 451, 452

Reception of aliens:

may be received conditionally only, 392

no obligation to receive aliens, 390

Recognition:

of a change in the form of government, 120

of a change in the title of a State, 121, 173

of a new head of a State, 425

of a State through appointment of consul, 489

of States, 116-121

of insurgents as a belligerent Power, 119

Reconduction of foreigners, 402

Reconfirmation of treaties, 581

Recousse, droit de, 347

Red Indians, 35

Redintegration, acquisition of nationality by, 376

Redintegration of treaties, 581

Regents, 432

Registration of Aliens, Act for the, 398

Reign of Terror, 412

Release, loss of nationality through, 378

Religious disabilities, 364, 368

in Roumania, 388

Renewal of treaties, 580

Renunciation as an international transaction, 539

Renunciation of a treaty, 571

Renvoi, droit de, 402

Reprisals, 396

Republics:

American, 624

Italian, 438

Negro, 32

Presidents of, 433, 434

Rescission of treaties, 571

Res extra commercium, 323

Residents, 445

Responsales, 437

Responsibility of States, 206-225

for acts of courts of justice, 216

for acts of diplomatic envoys, 215

for acts of heads of States, 214

for acts of insurgents and rioters, 222

for acts of members of Governments, 215

for acts of officials and military forces, 218

for acts of Parliaments, 216

for acts of private individuals, 221

Res transit cum suo onere, 128, 288

Retinue of diplomatic envoys, 472-475

of monarchs abroad, 430

Retorsion, 391, 396, 400

Revenue Laws, 261

Revolt as a mode of losing territory, 312

Rhine, the river, 241

Rhodian laws, 56

Ricci-Busatti, 104

Right:

of asylum, 392, 461, 462

of chapel, 467

of contiguity, 295

of legation, 440

of protection over citizens abroad, 395, 400

of pursuit on the sea, 336

Right of legation:

by whom exercised, 442

conception, 440

not possessed by a revolutionary party recognised as a belligerent Power, 442

what States possess the, 441

Rights of mankind, 35, 367, 369

Rights of Nations, Declaration of, 35, 65

Rioters, règlement of the Institute of International Law concerning Acts of, 224

Ripperda, case of the Duke of, 461

Riquelme, 97

Rivers, 239

abandoned beds of, 302

international, 240

South American, 242

utilisation of the flow of, 243

See also Navigation.

Rivier, 97, 101, 103

Roeskild, Peace Treaty of, 63

Rolin, 103

Roman Catholic Church, 8

Roman Law, 283

Romans, their rules for international relations, 50

Rome, Congress at, 613

Ross, case of Bishop, 443

Roumania:

Convention of 1877 with Russia, 597

independence of, 71;

restricted, 183

treatment of Jews in, 388

Rousseau, J. J., 113

Rousset, 102

Royal honours, States enjoying, 172

Russian Ambassador, case of, 457

Rutherford, 90

Rymer, 102

Ryswick, Peace Treaty of, 63