 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...United States in the Field," sanctioned and promulgated by the President and the War Department, " is simply military authority exercised in accordance with the laws and usages of war.''4 If we liken military law to that by which legislatures and courts are constituted and their... | |
 | William Edward Birkhimer - Martial law - 1892 - 578 pages
...continues beyond the conclusion of peace as one of the conditions of the same. 3. (See p. 94, text.) 4. Martial law is simply military authority exercised in accordance with the laws and nsages of war. Military oppression is not martial law ; it is the abuse of the power which that law... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - International law - 1893 - 658 pages
...either wholly or in part, as in times of peace, unless otherwise ordered by the military authority. 4. Martial law is simply military authority exercised...it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honour, and humanity — virtues adorning a soldier even... | |
 | Freeman Snow - International law - 1893 - 636 pages
...either wholly or in part, as in times of peace, unless otherwise ordered by the military authority. 4. Martial Law is simply military authority exercised...force, it is incumbent upon those who administer it to Ijl qtrictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity • ,H\CS adorning a soldier... | |
 | William Henry Powell - 1894 - 668 pages
...martial law, in what does it consist, and by whom is it executed and carried out ? A. Martial law is military authority exercised in accordance with the laws and usages of war in a place or district occupied by an enemy, and is the immediate and direct effect and consequence... | |
 | John Tyler Morgan - Cuba - 1897 - 284 pages
...avec les idees actuelles do Phumanito et la maniero do f airo la guerre ehez les peuples civilises:" " Martial law is simply military authority exercised...it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity, virtues adorning a soldier even... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1178 pages
...as in time of peace, unless otherwise ordered by the military authority. '"4. Martial law is simple military authority exercised in accordance with the...it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity— virtues adorning a soldier even... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1178 pages
...as in time of peace, unless otherwise ordered by the military authority. '"4. Martial law is simple military authority exercised in accordance with the...it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity — virtues adorning a soldier even... | |
 | Lewis Reifsneider Harley - 1899 - 236 pages
...His fondness for an ethical treatment of great subjects is shown in the following paragraphs : — " As martial law is executed by military force, it is incumbent upon those who administer it, to be strictly guarded by the laws of justice, honor, and humanity — virtues adorning a soldier even more... | |
 | George Breckenridge Davis - International law - 1900 - 648 pages
...United States during out modification, for the government of the war with Spain in 1898. 4. Effects. Martial law is simply military authority exercised...it is incumbent upon those who administer it to be strictly guided by the principles of justice, honor, and humanity — virtues adorning a soldier even... | |
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Martial Law is simply military authority exercised in accordance with the laws and usages of war. Military oppression is not Martial Law; it is the abuse of the power which that law confers. As Martial Law is executed by military force, it is incumbent... 
