Note 1 — Chapter XIX · INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE TRENT CASE.

Vattel, Book IV, chapter 7, section 85. As further evidence that the older writers on international law did not hold to the doctrine that an ambassador may be arrested on neutral territory, Grotius may be quoted. He says: “Aliud sit si, quis extra fines suos, insidias ponat legatis alienis; eo enim jus gentium violarentur.” De Jure Belli et Pacis, Lib. II, cap. 18, sec. 5. Translated as follows by Sir T. Twiss: “It is quite another thing, if any prince shall out of his own territory contrive to surprise the ambassadors of another state, for this would be a direct breach of the law of nations.”