Law Magazine and Law Review, (FOURTH SERIES, VOL. XIII., 1887-88.) Being the combined Law Magazine, founded in 1828, and Edited, FROM 1875 to 1883, BY T. P. TASWELL-LANGMEAD, B.C.L., Oxon., AND C. H. E. CARMICHAEL, M.A., Oxon., AND CONTINUED BY C. H. E. CARMICHAEL, M.A., OxoN., AND W. P. EVERSLEY, B.C.L., M.A., Oxon. LONDON: STEVENS AND HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR, W.C. 1888. LONDON: PRINTED BY PEWTRESS & Co., 28, LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C. Free. Dec, 1887- Seft; 1888, Law Magazine and Review. Code. By F. W. Raikes INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS FOR NEUTRALISATION OF INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT (U.S.A. AND CANADA). By INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF MERCHANDISE MARKS: FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. By T. Barclay 221 JURISPRUDENCE, Rattigan's LAND TRANSFER BILL, 1887, AND AMENDMENT OF REAL ... LAWS OF WAR, AMELIORATION OF, REQUIRED BY MODERN WALCHEREN EXPEDITION, The, and the Public Law of ... ... ... ... 260 368 19 ... 71 Europe TITLE PAGE for Vol. XIII. of Digest. at end THE LAW MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. No. CCLXVI.-NOVEMBER, 1887. I.-ON INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS FOR THE NEUTRALISATION OF TERRITORY AND THEIR APPLICATION TO THE SUEZ CANAL.* IT T has been remarked by several eminent writers on the Law of Nations that the notion of Neutrality, as a condition of International life, was unknown to the nations of the ancient world, and that neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any word to express the idea. It would, perhaps, have been a safer statement on their part if they had said that the term "neutrality," and the juridical notions which are connected with it in the present day, are essentially modern, for it is rather to the phrase "neutrality," than to the status of a neutral, that the character of modernism can be properly said to attach. We can hardly, with reason, assert that the International status of neutrality was unknown to the Ancients, when the Roman historian of the war which was carried on in Greece between the Ætolians and the Achæan league, in the early part of the second century before the Christian era, represents the envoy of King Antiochus endeavouring to dissuade the Roman general from siding with either of the belligerent parties in the following words: "Let the Romans, as becomes middle persons, wish peace to either party, but let them not interpose in the war."+ * A Paper read at the London Conference of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations, July, 1887. + "Pacem utrique parti, quod medios decet, optent, bello se non interponant.” -Livii Historia, xxxv. 48. |