Excerpt from A Handbook of Public International Law The adoption of this little book by the Admiralty for the use. Of officers of the Royal Navy rendered necessary a second edition within a few weeks of the publication of the first. Others followed in due course, and now a fifth makes its appearance. The text has been carefully revised throughout, so as to make it, as far as the small space at my disposal will permit, a source of information upon important matters which have arisen in recent years. I have dealt at some length with the law Of Occupation, and with the questions arising out of the existence of Leases, Protectorates, Spheres of Influence, and Chartered Companies. The arrangement of the subject-matter has been altered here and there, I hope for the better. A chapter on The Acquisition of Enemy Character has been added to Part III. A considerable amount Of additional information has been inserted in several Of the chapters dealing with War and Neutrality, in the hope that naval. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.