Sec. 3. Manner of conducting search, Directions for search by Admiral Pareja, 1865, PART VII.-SHIP'S PAPERS AND NATIONALITY. Enlistments for belligerent service prohibited, 3. Treaty of Washington, 1871, Rules to be observed by neutrals, Rules of the Geneva arbitration, tion. International Law is the system of rules governing the inter- Sec. 1. Definicourse of nations in peace and war. The naval officer is chiefly concerned with that division of the subject which relates to war, its causes, objects, and rules of conduct; and it is that division, as applied to maritime affairs, which these notes are intended to illustrate. "The law of nations is the science which teaches the rights Vattel. subsisting between nations or States, and the obligations correspondent to those rights."* "The law of nations modifies the intercourse of independent Chitty. commonwealths in peace, and prescribes limits to their hostilities in war. It prescribes, that in peace, nations should do each other as much good, and in time of war as little harm, as may be possible, without injuring their own proper real interests."† "International Law, as understood among civilized nations, Wheaton. may be defined as consisting of those rules of conduct which reason deduces, as consonant to justice, from the nature of the society existing among independent nations; with such definiNote to Vattel, p. liii. * Vattel, p. liii. |