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Private Property on the High Seas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Graham Bower
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War, therefore, is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.

If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand.

As long as the enemy is not defeated he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.—Clausewitz on War.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1919 , pp. 60 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1919

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References

1 The Haabet (No. 1), 2 C. Rob. 174; 1 Roscoe’s Prize Cases, 212. See p. 214.