A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber.

  • Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872.
Date:
[1863]
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Credit: A code for the government of armies in the field as authorized by the laws and usages of war on land : printed as manuscript for the Board appointed by the Secretary of War [Special Orders, no. 399] "to propose amendments or changes in the rules and articles of war, and a code of regulations for the government of armies in the field, as authorized by the laws and usages of war" / by Francis Lieber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or territory continues beyond the conclusion of peace, one of the conditions of the same. § 3. Martial Law in a hostile country, consists in the pension, by the occupying military authority, of the crim- inal and civil law, and of the domestic administration and government in the occupied place or territory, and in the substitution of military rule and force, for the same ; a- well as in the dictation of general laws—as far as military n sity requires this suspension, substitution, and dictation. It is not unusual to proclaim that the administration of all civil and penal law shall continue, as in times of pi unless specially interfered with by the military authority. £ 4. Martial Law, although called law. does not consist in a body of rules of action. There is not even a distinct term for it in other languages. Martial Law in a conquered or invaded country, or pla is temporary Military Absolutism, in the hands of com- manders, -who, therefore, must take care that it does not de- generate into arbitrary despotism. .Martial Law is not the reckless use of military power by the highest or lowest in arms. .Military oppression is not Martial Law. § .>. Military Xecessity, as understood by modern civil- ized nations, consists in the uecessity of those measures which are indispensable for the obtaining of the end- of the war, and arc lawful according to the modern law and us of war. § 6. Modern times arc distinguished from earlier ages, bvthe existence, at one and the same time, of many nations and creat governments, related to one another in close intercourse. They draw abreast like chariot hoi- Peace is their normal condition; war is the exception. The ultimate object of all modern war i- a renewed state of peace. The more vigorously wars are pursued, the better it is for humanity. Sharp war- are brief. Ever since the formation and co-existence of modern na- tions, and ever since wars have become great national wars, War has come to be acknowledged not to be it- own end,