War Related

Declaration of St. Petersburg – November 29 1868

Declaration of St. Petersburg – November 29 1868

On the proposition of the Imperial Cabinet of Russia, an International Military Commission having assembled at St. Petersburg in order to examine into the expediency of forbidding the use of certain in times of war between civilized nations, and that Commission, having by common agreement fixed the technical limits at which the necessities of war […]
Declaration of Paris – April 16, 1856.

Declaration of Paris – April 16, 1856.

The Plenipotentiaries who signed the Treaty of Paris of March assembled in conference, Considering: That maritime law in time of war has long been the subject of deplorable disputes; That the uncertainty of the law and of the duties in such a matter gives rise to differences of opinion between neutrals and belligerents which may […]