238. War is usually terminated by a treaty of peace 239. The legal consequences of the restoration of peace 240. The simultaneous growth in modern times of a horror of war and 241. Remedies for war. Arbitration the most hopeful 253. A neutral state is bound (1) Not to give armed assistance to (2) Not to supply belligerents with money or instruments of (3) Not to allow belligerents to send troops through its terri- (4) Not to suffer belligerent agents or its own subjects to fit out armed expeditions within its dominions, or increase (5) Not to permit its subjects to enter the military or naval service of the belligerents, or accept letters of marque (6) To make reparation to any belligerent who may have ORDINARY NEUTRAL COMMERCE. 265. The conflict between belligerent and neutral interests in the mat- PART I. THE NATURE AND HISTORY OF INTER NATIONAL LAW. CHAPTER I. THE DEFINITION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. § 1. The definition of International Law. Difficulty of making it quite satisfactory." INTERNATIONAL Law may be defined as The rules which determine the conduct of the general body of civilized states in their dealings with one another. In International Law, as in other sciences, a good definition is one of the last results to be arrived at. Until the nature and scope of any study are clearly seen, its boundaries cannot be determined with perfect accuracy. A definition, in order to be satisfactory, ought to give with precision the marks whereby the thing to be defined is distinguished from all other things; and unless it does this it is either incomplete or misleading. We may expect that different definitions of a science will be given, not only in its infancy, before its nature and limits are clearly understood, but even in its maturity, if those who cultivate it differ as to its methods and as to the extent of the subject-matter with which it deals. International Law is in this latter predicament. It has been studied for ages; but though its expounders are grad |