Prestation. _See_ Angary.
Prisoners of war, treatment of, 262-264; exchange of, 265; when must be restored, 268; treaties as to, 273.
Privateering, history of, 254; action of, M. Genet as to, 282.
Private international law, of what it treats, 4, 122, 146.
Private property of enemy, capture of, at sea, 247, 300 _et seq._; inviolability of, on land, 252.
Private vessels, liability of, to capture, 245; exemption of, 246.
Prize, courts of, 30; disposition of, 258, 259; salvage in case of, 260, 261; taking of, into neutral waters, 293; att.i.tude of j.a.pan as to, 313, 314; law of, 324-328; procedure as to, in court, 421-429.
Prize courts. _See_ Prize.
Prize law of j.a.pan, 246.
_Proces-verbaux._ _See_ Protocol.
Proclamation of the United States as to the Declaration of Paris, 33; of Queen Victoria as to belligerency, 60; of treaties, 209; of the United States as to war with Spain, 222; of blockade, 230, 231.
President, as to neutrality, 282; of nations during war between Spain and the United States, 283, 288; as to departure of belligerents on vessels from port, 291.
Projectiles, inflicting unnecessary suffering, 253; from balloons, 253.
Promulgation of treaty, 209.
Property, in general, 148, 149; of the state, 149; of the enemy, status of, 239-244; at sea, status of, 245-249.
Protectorates, states under, 52, 53; jurisdiction in case of, 103; spheres of influence, 103, 104.
Protocol, what it is, 171, 199, 200, 202, 208, 209, 212, 272.
Provisions, when may be supplied to belligerents, 290; as contraband of war, 305.
Prussia, att.i.tude of, at the Congress of Troppau, 90.
_See_ Germany.
Public buildings, protection of, in war, 240.
Public debt, stock held by enemy in, 242.
Public international law, of what it treats, 4.
Public vessels, liability of, to capture, 245.
Quarter, refusal of, 263.
Railway plant, status of, in war, 240, 252.
Ransom. _See_ Capture.
Ratification of treaties, 207-209.
Real property, status of, in war, 240, 241.
Rebellion, intervention in case of, 85, 86.
Recognition, of new states, 41-49; of belligerency, 59-63.
Religion, protection of, 182, 240.
Repair, hostile character of ships of, 310.
Reprisals, defined, 221.
Requisitions, what they are, 240, 241, 243.
Retaliation, liability to, 263; when forbidden, 254.
Retorsion, defined, 220, 221.
Right of asylum, on ship of war, 119, 288, 290; as to sovereign"s hotel, 137; in house of diplomatic agent, 180-182.
_See_ Internment.
Rivers, in determining territory, 102; as affecting jurisdiction, 105-108.
Roman law, a basis of international law, 9, 14, 15; as to alluvium, 102.
Roumania, recognition of, 44; cession of Bessarabia and a part of Turkey to, 100.
Russia, suzerainty of, 53; relation of, to the balance of power, 83; one of the Great Powers, 90; att.i.tude of, at the Congress of Troppau, 90; friendship of, with France, 93; sale of Alaska by, 101; treaty of, with Turkey as to Bosphorus, etc., 110; convention of, as to the Suez Ca.n.a.l, 111; claim of, as to Pacific Ocean, 116; volunteer navy of, 256.
Safe conduct, what it is, 266.
Safeguard, what it is, 266.
Sale, transfer of territory by, 100.
Salvage, granting of, 260-262.
Samoa, neutralization of, 52; suzerainty of, 53.
Scientific works, exemption of, 239; vessels engaged in, 245, 246.
Sea laws, amalfitan tables, 17, 186; _Consolato del Mare_, 17, 186, 300; laws of Oleron, 17, 186; laws of Wisby, 17, 186; Hanseatic League, 18, 29, 187; customs of Amsterdam, 18; laws of Antwerp, 18; Guidon de la Mar, 18; Lex Rhodia, 17, 187.