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| | Bynkershoek: About Contraband |
 | | Otherwise, this rule, supported by an almost unbroken line of treaties, is that neutrals may not carry contraband goods to our enemy, and that if they do, and are caught, the goods are confiscated; but with the exception of contraband, they may freely trade with either party and carry anything to them with impunity. |
 | | There is the same prohibition against contraband goods in section two of the above-mentioned edicts of 1665, 1672, and 1673, where, after an enumeration of various species of contraband articles, it is added 'and all other articles manufactured and prepared for warlike use'. |
 | | Hence if neutrals have shipped contraband goods to our enemies, and have pledged their goods for the freight, if the goods are taken on the voyage and confiscated as contraband, the Dutch courts have held that the captain is thence entitled to his freight as though the whole voyage had been completed. |
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