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Convention for the Adaptation of the Principles of the Geneva Convention to Maritime Warfare1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Louis Renault
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Extract

We are here to give an account of the charge confided to us to draw up a text upon which to base your deliberations. Before giving a brief outline of each one of the propositions which we have the honor to submit, it may be useful to make some remarks of a general nature.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1908 , pp. 295 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1908

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Footnotes

1

This article is a translation of Prof. Louis Renault’s admirable report to the Second Peace Conference. For the Geneva Convention of 1906 the reader is referred to the article on that subject by Gen. George B. Davis, which appeared in this Journal, 1:410. – Managing Editor.

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2 ARTICLE 3. Hospital ships, equipped entirely or in part at the expense of private persons or of officially recognized societies of neutral countries, shall be respected and exempt from capture, upon the condition that they are placed under the direction of one of the belligerents, with the previous assent of their own government and with the authorization of the belligerent itself, the latter having notified their names to the adversary at the commencement of, or during the course of, the hostilities, and in any case before it is employed.