Note 1250 — Chapter IV · THE MODERN PRACTICE OF STATES AND THE OPINIONS OF RECENT PUBLICISTS.
Reading edition
Le Droit International, i. 349; Dict. de Droit International, 501. Bluntschli endeavours to place the doctrine on a philosophical but absurd basis, by stating that the sovereignty over the sea extended originally only to a stone’s-throw from the coast, later to an arrow-shot, and then according to the range of firearms.