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20. C Offences against the external Security of the State.

In general it does not seem to be the practice for
any state to expect any positive assistance of this kind
from a foreign state . In the case of supplying its
enemies or revolted subjects with military stores, (a case
which as has been already intimated is the most common)
one) all that seems in general to be expected of the
state of which the party is a member is that it should
sit passive and suffer him to be punished with the
confiscation of the stores [which are the measure and
manner of his offence,] if they can be seized any where
not within its own dominions ; for instant on a vacant
spot, the Sea. If it be expected to take any active
step it is only in virtue of some particular stipulation
or connection. (a) Upon

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Note.

(a) The English Law affords an instance in which an act of
very indirect hostility against a foreign nation is punished
with extraordinary severity : and that , obviously upon the
principle which brings the offence under the present head.
The states on the coast of Barbary are in a state of constant
war with many states of Europe , for which reason they

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field	offences against the external security of the state
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
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