A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber.

  • Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872.
Date:
[1863]
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Credit: A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    the work of their office, andean continue it according to the circumstances arising out of the Mar such as jm administrative or police officers, officers of city or communal governments—are paid from the public revenue of the invaded territory, until the military government lias rea- son wholly or partially to discontinue it. Salaries or incomes connected with purely honorary titles, are always stopped. § 22. There exists no law or body of authoritative i of action between hostile armies, except that branch of the law of nature and nations, which is called the law and usages of war on land. All municipal law of the ground on which the armies stand, or of the countries to which they belong, is silent and of no effect between armies in the field. Slavery, complicating and confounding the ideas of prop- erty, (that is of a thing,) and of personality, (that is of humanity,) exists according to municipal or local law only. The law of nature and nations, has never acknowledged it. The jurists of all countries agree. The Digest of the Roman Law enacts the early dictum of the pagan jurist, that far as the law of nature is concerned, all men are equal ; and fugitives escaping from a country, in which they were slaves, villains, or serfs, into another country, have, for centuries past, been held free, and acknowledged free, by judicial decision?- of European countries, even though the municipal law of the country, in which the slave had taken refuge, acknowledged slavery within it- own dominion-. § 23. Therefore, if the United State- wage Avar with a government which admits of slavery, and a fugitive from the opposite belligerent offers himself for protection to the American army, and is free from the suspicion of mis- chievous intentions, he must be received and protected, be he a fugitive slave or not ; and once received and prot< by the United States, under the shield of the Law of Na1 he can never be returned into slavery or given up to the enemy. Returning such a person would amount to enslavii] free person, and neither the United State- nor a]