A neutral vessel engaged in the laying, cutting, or repair of war telegraph cables is held to be performing unneutral service.
In practice both powers have in recent years given a neutral vessel warning of the existence of blockade of a port before seizure.
The Treaty of 1794 with Great Britain expressly provides that property of an enemy on a neutral vessel shall be good prize.
Savary and Las Cases desired to know, whether Captain Maitland would permit the frigates to sail with him uninterrupted, or at least give him leave to proceed in a neutral vessel.
But the case is different when a captured vessel, whose crew has been taken on board the capturing vessel, is abandoned and afterwards met and taken possession of by a neutral vessel or by a vessel of her home State.
And a neutral vessel, loaded before the blockade was established, has a right to leave the port with her cargo.
A neutral vessel refusing to be searched by a lawful cruiser, would thereby render herself liable to condemnation as a prize.
A neutral vessel attempting to enter or depart, becomes liable to be seized and condemned.
But nowhere will she find an exception to this freedom of the seas, and of neutral flags, which justifies the taking away of any person, not an enemy in military service, found on board a neutral vessel.
It would be disastrous if shipowners and insurers were to assume, that a neutral vessel, if destined for a neutral port, is necessarily safe from capture.
Articles are "contraband of war" which a belligerent is justified in intercepting while in course of carriage to his enemy, although such carriage is being effected by a neutral vessel.
If a neutral vessel, having enemy's goods on board, is taken, and there is nothing unfair in the conduct of the neutral master, he will even be entitled to his reasonable demurrage.
It may be seized if found on board of a neutral vessel, beyond the limits of the neutral jurisdiction.
Transporting the Enemy's Forces, subjects a Neutral Vessel to confiscation, if captured by the opposite belligerent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neutral vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
