Common law adopted in the se- Consuls, no judicial authority, 42

Contraband of war, 135-143.

tion, 222-236. Contracts protected against state

Court, Supreme, its jurisdiction, | Diplomatic agents to the Barbary
when a state is a party,

323. 327. Direct taxes, 254.

350.

States, 45.

or a state is interested, District of Columbia, 256, 349.
District Courts-see Courts, U.S.
Doctor and Student, by St. Ger-
main, 504.

its power to enforce its
appellate decrees,316.
321. 441.

is confined to matter of

record, 326.
Courts, U. S. Circuit, their gene-
ral powers, 301-303.
District, their general pow-
ers, 303-305.

jurisdiction as

prize

courts, 356.
cognizance of captures
on the coast, 29.

criminal jurisdiction,

360.

limits of admiralty juris-
diction, 365.

jurisdiction as Instance
Courts, 378.

civil jurisdiction, 381.
Territorial Courts, 383.
State Courts with federal
powers, 306.
U. S. courts not controlled
by state courts, 409.
may set aside unconsti-
tutional laws, 449-

Cowell's Inst. 508.

Documents of neutral vessels,

453.

Glanville, 499.
Greeks, their notions of national
obligation, 4.
as to rights of cap-
tives, 4.

as to national inde-

pendence, 22.

Impeachment, power of, 288.
Improvements, internal, 267.
Inca of Peru, 21.
Independence, declaration of, 208.
Indian lands, 257.
Infidels, opinions of Grotius, Coke,
and Bacon, concerning,

Instance Courts, 378.

11.

their advance in nation-Intercourse with an enemy un-

al law, 5.
Grotius, merit of his work-De
Jure Belli et Pacis, 15.

Mare Liberum, 27.
influence on war, 90.

H

Hale, Sir Matthew, his pleas of
the crown, 511.
Hamilton, Alexander, against con-
fiscating debts, 63.

Hardwicke, Lord Ch. 494.
Hawkins, on Criminal Law, 511.
History of the law of nations, 4-

19.
of the American Union,
201-219.
of Law and Equity Re-
ports, 480-495.

of treatises on law, 499

-514.

of the civil law, 515-548

Hobart's Report s, 483.

lawful, 67.
Interference with other powers,

23.

Interpretation of statutes, rules
for, 460-465.

License to trade with the enemy, | Nations, their rights survive re-

Nations, law of, History, 1-20.

their equality, 21.

duties in peace, 32.

duty of self defence, 23.

48.
assistance to new states,
24.

dominion over adjoining
seas, 26-31.

rights of commerce, 32.
rights of passage, 34.

to navigable rivers, 35.

volutions, 25.
assistance to allies, 49,
50.

rights and duties as neu-
trals, 135-158.

rights as belligerents,
47-64. 90-113.

National character, test of, 76—

Neutrality, rules of, declared by