Petersburg in the case of the Calchas, so far as it recognises the existence of a conditional class of contraband, and that raw cotton, as res ancipitis usus, must be treated in accordance with the rules applicable to goods belonging to that class, has laid down an unimpeachable proposition of law.
Holland asserts a legal principle regarding the classification of contraband goods.
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We see a general legal persuasion ever in process of more and more distinct formation uniting all civilised peoples.
This being so, it is necessary to recognise also that increased humanity in the mode of making war has in reality followed upon the gradual softening of manners.
It has long been a universally recognised custom of warfare that a flag of truce must not be fired on, and yet we have seen that rule violated on several occasions during the late war.
The progress of civilisation should have the effect of alleviating as much as possible the calamities of war.
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