NEUTRAL

In International law. Indifferent; impartial; not engaged on either side; not taking an active part with either of the contending states. In an international war, the principal hostile powers are called "belligerents;" those actively co-opera ting with and a isting them, their "allies;" and those taking no part whatever, "neutrals." -Neutral property. Property which be long a to citizens of neutral powel'8, and is used, treated, and accompanied by proper inllignia as such. NEtTT:aALITY. · The state of a nation which takes no part,between two or more other nations at war. U. S. v. The Three Friends, 166 u. ·s. 1, 17 Sup. Ct. 400,. 41 L. Ed. 897. • -NeutraHty laws, Acts of congre which forbid the fitting out and equipping of armed ve els, or the enlisting of troops, for the aid of either of two belligerent powers with which the. United States is at peace.-Neutrality proclam.atlon..A. proclamation by the president of the United States, i ued on the outbreak of a war between two powers with both of which the United States is at peace, announcing the neutrality of the United States and warning all citizens to refrain - from any breach of the neutrality laws. NEVER INDEBTED, [s. 822]