It may be said, generally, that if the government remains neutral, and recognizes the existence of a civil war, its courts cannot consider as criminal those acts of hostility which war authorizes, and which the new government may direct against its enemy.
Beveridge discusses the implications of a government's neutrality during civil wars and its effects on legal proceedings.
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