CONTRABAND OF WAR

Certain clruises of merchandise, ·such as arms and ammunition, which, by the rules of intern a• tlonal law, cannot lawfully be furnished or carried by a neutral nation to either of two belligerents; il' found in transit in neutral ve els, such goods may be seized and condemned for violation of neutrality. The Peter boff, 5 WaJ-1. 58, 18 L. IDd. 564; Richardson v. Insurance Co., 6 Ma . 114, 4 Am. Dec. 92. A recent American author on international law says that, "by the term 'contraband of war,' we now understand a cla of articles of commerce which neu.:tral, are prohibited from furnishing to either one of the belligerents, for the reason that, by so doing, injury is done to the other belligerent;" and he treats of the subject, chiefly, in its relation to commerce upon the high "eas. Hall Int. Law, 570, 002; Elrod· T. Alexander, 4 Heisk. (Tenn.) 345. [s. 266]