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WHEATON'S ELEMENTS
INTERNATIONAL LAW
FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION,
REVISED THROUGHOUT.
NOTE.
Wheatoii's ' Elements of Internatvmal haw * was first published in 1836, in two editions, one appearing in
Philadelphia and the other in London. The third edition was issued in 18^6, in Philadelphia. In ISIfS, a French edition of the icork was published at Leipsic and Paris; and in 1853 a second French edition was brought out at the same places. In 1857 an edition in Eyiglish {called the sixth) was edited by W. B. Lawrence, and published in
Boston; a second edition by the same editor appeared in
1863, also in Boston. The next issue, in 1864, teas a translation into Chinese executed by order of the Chinese
Governmetit. The edition after that was the tvell-knoivn one, edited by R. H. Dana, 1866, Boston. The first
English edition proper ivas edited by A. C. Boyd and issued by the present publishers in 1878; the same editor prepared the second and the third edition, the latter in
1889. The fourth English edition, edited by J. B. Atlay, appeared in 190If.
WHEATON'S ELEMENTS
OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION,
REVISED THROUGHOUT, CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED
AND RE-WRITTEN
BY
COLEMAN PHILLIPSON, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D.,
OF THK INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER- AT- LAW,
Author of'"'' Studies in International Laiv "; '* Ilf'ect of War on Contracts ";
" The International Law and Custom…