Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . he ??jus2^081 limini,^or that principle of the law of nations which rehabilitates the former ownerwith his property taken by an enemy, when such property is recovered bythe forces of his own country. Or, in other Avords, aOU claim that by the BUTLFArS BOOK. 603 •laws of nations and of war, when property of the subjects of one belliger-ent power captured by the forces of the other belligerent, is recapturedby the armies of the former owner, then tlie pr
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . he ??jus2^081 limini,^or that principle of the law of nations which rehabilitates the former ownerwith his property taken by an enemy, when such property is recovered bythe forces of his own country. Or, in other Avords, aOU claim that by the BUTLFArS BOOK. 603 •laws of nations and of war, when property of the subjects of one belliger-ent power captured by the forces of the other belligerent, is recapturedby the armies of the former owner, then tlie property is to be restoredto its prior possessor as if it had never been captured; and, therefore,under this principle, your authorities propose to restore to their mastersthe slaves wliich heretofore belonged to them which you may capturefrom us. But this postliminary right, under which you claim to act, as under-stooci and defined by all Avriters on national law, is applicable simply toimmovable property, and that, too, only after the complete resubjugation ofthat portion of the country in which the property is situated, upon which.
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