Blockade - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Blockade [fr. bloccato, Ital., military term], the disposition of troops or armed vessels, so as to cut off all external communication with an enemy's port fortress, city, etc. The term is now generally applied to the blockade of a port by armed vessels. By the Declaration of Paris, Art. 4, blockades in order to be binding must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Accordingly, the two essential circumstances necessary to make a blockade good against neutrals are-(1) that there be actually stationed at the place a sufficient force to prevent the entry or exit of vessels; and (2) that the party violating it shall be proved to be aware of its existence. The effect of a guilty violation of blockade to the offending party, when captured, is the condemnation usually of both the ship and the cargo. Consult Hall's International Law.Pacific blockades, i.e., blockades of the ports of a power with whom the blockading po...
Paper Blockade
Paper Blockade. The state of a line of coast proclaimed to be under blockade in time of war, when the naval force on watch is not sufficient to repel a real attempt to enter. See BLOCKADE....
Blockade
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress or the reception of supplies as the blockade of the ports of an enemy...
Blockader
One who blockades...
Continental system
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree which Napoleon I issued from Berlin Nov 21 1806 declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade and British subjects property and merchandise subject to capture and excluding British ships from all parts of Europe under French dominion The retaliatory measures of England were followed by the Milan decree issued by Napoleon from Milan Dec 17 1807 imposing further restrictions and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize...
Declaration of Paris
Declaration of Paris, a state paper agreed upon at the conclusion of the Crimean War, by the representatives of Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey (February 26, 1856), in which the following agreements on maritime law were come to:--Privateering is abolished.The neutral flag covers enemy's goods save contraband of war.Neutral goods save contraband of war are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. Blockades to be binding must be real. (See also LETTERS OF MARQUE and PAPER BLOCKADES.)...
Beleaguer
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape to besiege to blockade...
blockaded
having access obstructed by emplacement of a barrier or by threat of force...
Laws of war
Laws of war, means the body of rules and principles observed by civilized nations for the regulation of matters inherent or incidental to the conduct of a public war, such as the relations of neutrals and belligerents, blockades, captures, prizes, truces and armistices, capitulations, prisoners, and declarations of war and peace, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 895....
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