But we find also in the Note matters of even more transcendent interest, relating to the hitherto universally accepted doctrines of international law, applicable to the treatment of enemy as well as of neutral vessels.
Holland discusses the implications of international law on the treatment of enemy and neutral vessels during wartime.
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The Declaration of London has, most fortunately, never been ratified by the Government of Great Britain.
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It is surely notorious that the delegates of a Power, by agreeing to the draft of a treaty, give to it no international validity, which results only when the treaty has been ratified by their Government.
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