Excerpt from Chapters on the Principles of International Law<br><br>The eleventh and last chapter of the present series treats of the principles of the laws of war as between belligerents. Attention has been drawn in it to the extreme license on the ground of necessity which has received a certain scientific sanction from one of the contributors to the important Handbook of Interna tional Law edited by the late Professor von Holtzen dorff.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.