Contraband
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Against law or treaty; prohibited. Goods exported from or imported into a country against its laws.
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Articles, the importation or exportation of which is prohibited by law. P. Enc. ammunilion, which, by the rules of international law, cannot lawfully be furnished or earried by a neutral nation to either of two belligerents; if found in transit in neutral vessels, such goods may be seized and condemned for violation of neutrality. A recent American author on international law says that, “by the term ‘contraband of war,’ we now understand a elass of: articles of commerce which newtrtis are prohibited from furnishing to either one of the belligerents, for the reason that, by 80 doing, injury is done to the other belligerent;” and he treats of the subject, chiefly, in its relation to commerce upon the high seas. (Hall, Int. Law, 570,592.) 4 Hoisk. 345.