Pacific blockade was a term invented by Hautefeuille, the French writer on international maritime law, to describe a blockade exercised by a great power for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear on a weaker state without actual war. That it is an act of violence, and therefore in the nature of war, is undeniable, seeing that it can only be empl...
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(from the article `visit and search`) While the principle of freedom of the seas normally forbids visit and search of foreign merchant vessels on the high seas in time of peace, the ...
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