Sentence examples for neutral shipping from inspiring English sources

In 1751 he drafted the government response to an attempt by the King of Prussia to frustrate neutral shipping, which Lord Stowell called "the foundation of the modern law of neutrality", and Montesquieu described it as a "résponse sans éplique" (response without a reply).

Iran responded with half a dozen attacks on neutral shipping.

The Danish court, however, favoured the Russian proposal for an armed league of all the neutral powers to protect neutral shipping.

She finally dismissed him in May 1781 after they quarreled over her plan (1780) to organize the protection of neutral shipping against British interference during the American Revolution.

Although he concurred in the proslavery Dred Scott decision (1857), he spoke for the court in the 1863 Prize Cases, which upheld the power of the president to proclaim a blockade of Confederate ports and to seize neutral shipping.

Accordingly, Napoleon launched the "Continental System": in the Berlin Decree of November 1806, he prohibited British trade with all countries under French influence, including British products carried by neutral shipping.

From 1939 to 1942, 4,435 Allied and neutral ships were lost from all causes, including U-boats.

It expanded the blockade of continental ports to those of neutral ships trading with Britain and eventually affected U.S. shipping.

From 1943, when the convoy system became fully operational, only 1,452 Allied and neutral ships were lost.

Neutral ships moored in ports in the blockaded zone will be given twenty-four hours' grace to leave.

Thus, unless otherwise agreed, the warring parties may continue to maintain a blockade and conduct visitations of neutral ships.