r own.

Sec.14. To prevent the abuse of this right, the owners are required to give
security, that the cruise shall be conducted according to instructions
and the usages of war; that the rights of neutral nations shall not be
violated; and that the captured property shall be brought in for
adjudication.

Sec.15. When a prize is brought into a port, the captors make a writing,
called _libel_, stating the facts of the capture, and praying that the
property may be condemned; and this paper is filed in the proper court.
If it shall be made to appear that the property was taken from the
enemy, the court condemns the property as _prize_, which is then sold,
and the proceeds are distributed among the captors.

Sec.16. All prizes, whether taken by a public or private armed vessel,
primarily belong to the sovereign; and no person has any interest in a
prize, except what he receives from the state: and due proof must in all
cases be made before the proper court, that the seizure was lawfully
made. In this country, prizes are proved and condemned in a district
court of the United States, which, when sitting that purpose, is called
a _prize court_.

Chapter LXVII.

Rights and Duties of Neutral Nations; Contraband Goods; Blockade; Right
of Search; Safe Conducts and Passports; Truces; Treaties of Peace.

Sec.1. A neutral nation is bound to observe a strict impartiality toward
the parties at war. If she should aid one party to the injury of the
other, she would be liable to be herself treated as an enemy. A loan of
money to one of the belligerents, or supplying him with other means of
carrying on a war, if done with the view of aiding him in the war, would
be a violation of neutrality. But an engagement made in time of peace to
furnish a nation a certain number of ships, or troops, or other articles
of war, may afterward, in time of war, be fulfilled.

Sec.2. A nation is not bound, however, on the occurrence of a war, to
change its customary trade, and to cease supplying a belligerent with
articles of trade which such belligerent was wont to receive from her,
although the goods may afford him the means of carrying on the war. So
if a nation has been accustomed to lend money to another for interest,
and the latter should become engaged in war with a third power, the
neutral would not break her neutrality if she should continue to lend
her money. The wrong in any case lies in the _intention_ to aid one to
the detriment