INTERNATIONAL LAW.

LONDON: PRINTED BY

SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET

UPON

UNIV OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

BY

SIR ROBERT PHILLIMORE, D.C.L.

MEMBER OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, AND
JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY.

'Justice is the common concern of mankind.'-BURKE, vol. v. p. 275, Thoughts on the French
Revolution.

'Rectè a viris doctis inter desiderata relatum est, jus Naturæ et Gentium, traditum secundum
disciplinam Christianorum.'-LEIBNITZ, XXXii. De Notionibus Juris et Justitiæ, p. 120.

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These events have not induced me to change the opinions which I had expressed in this volume as to the cardinal principles of International Law. On the contrary, I venture to think that they furnish a strong corroboration of them.

The "violence, oppression, and sword-law," which at this moment prevail in part of Europe, ought not

(a) The fourth volume, on Private International Law, was published in 1861.