Captured Property

In civilized warfare this term em IMG:content-0732.jpg:[blocks in formation] tinct i on made between the private person belonging to a hostile country and the country itself; the unarmed citizen is to be spared as far as the exigencies of war will permit. The U. S. ackr.owledges and protects, in hostile countries occupied by them, religion and morality; strictly private property; the persons of the inhabitants, especially women; the sacredne of the domestic relations. The right to tax people or property, to levy forced loans, to billet soldiers, to appropriate houses, lands, boats, or ships may be exercised in cases of military nece ity.