CIVIL LAW fellow of UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, AND BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; BACHELOR OF ARTS, TRINITY COLLEGE, AND SENIOR WHEWELL SCHOLAR (1893) IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. Author of "First Elements of Procedure," "The Laws of Law," &c. London: STEVENS AND HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. PREFACE. THE following studies were originally delivered as Lectures at Oxford. It is still too early for the evidence to be sifted, and satisfactory conclusions arrived at, with regard to many of the matters of fact with which they deal. But it is not too early to establish the principles which must be applied to the facts when ascertained; and this small work is offered as a slight contribution to that desirable end. 4, NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN. October, 1900. 589159 T. BATY. a peculiarly strong case, owing to the position of Emden The subjective rule enunciated in France as an indirect consequence of the adoption of the principle And adopted in the United States on the supposed analogy of continuous colonial voyages The analogy fails (1) because the ships were not necessarily the |