Declaration Of Paris

The name given to an agreement announcing four important rules of international law effected between the principal European powers and the Congress of Paris in 1856. These rules are: (1) Privateering is and remains abolished; (2) the neutral flag covers enemy's goods, except contraband of war; (3) neutral goods, except contraband of war, are not liable to confiscation under a hostile flag; (4) blockades, to be binding, must be eflfective. Abbott.

A declaration respecting international maritime lawset forth by the leading powers of Europe at the Congress of Paris April 16, 1S56. The several articles are: 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, except contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, except contraband of war, are not liable to confiscation under a hostile flag. 4. Blockades, to be binding, must be effective. The states not represented at the Congress were invited to adhere to the Declaration, and the majority did so. The United States refused to accept the Declaration, owing to the rejection by the Congress of the "Marcy Amendment" exempting private property from capture at soa. But the United States adhered to the rules of the Declaration during the war with Spain in 1898. The Convention Relative to the Conversion of Merchant-Ships into War-Ships, adopted at The Hague in 1907, was directed against a threatened evasion of the Declaration of Taris in the form of Volunteer Navies. Hig-

The hame given to an agreement announcing four important rifles of international law effected between the principal European powers at the Congress of Paris in 1856. These rules are: (1) Privateering is and remains abolished; (2) the neutral flag covers enemy’s goods, except contraband of war; (5) neutral goods, except contraband of war, are not liable to conliseation under a hostile flag; (4) blockades, to be binding, must be effective.