OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

WITH

AN ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN AND SOURCES AND

OF ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

BY

GEORGE B. DAVIS, U.S.A.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW AT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY

NEW YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE

1887

PREFACE.

Ir has been my purpose in the preparation of this volume to provide a work sufficiently elementary in character to be within the reach of students and others who may desire to gain some knowledge of the general principles of International Law. It is intended to be used as a text-book, rather than as a book of formal reference. To that end the use of citations, and of terms technical to the law, has been avoided wherever it was possible to do so, and the effort has been made to express the fundamental principles of the science as concisely as possible and in the English language.

Where quotations have been found necessary they have been acknowledged in the text, and the student will find, at the end of each chapter, a list of references to state papers, or to the works of writers of standard authority, where the subjects discussed in the text will be found treated at greater length and in more elaborate detail.

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