Pearce Higgins, A. Keywords: Ships | International regime | Mots clefs: Navires | Régime international | ABSTRACT Pearce Higgins explains that two rules of international law are of fundamental importance and primarily determine the legal regime of commercial vessels on the high seas in times of peace. The first of the two rules is that the high seas cannot become the property of any State. The second rule is that jurisdiction must be exercised exclusively as a general rule by each State over people or property b…

Pearce Higgins, A. Keywords: Ships | Naval warfare | Right of visit and search | Capture at sea | Mots clefs: Navires | Guerre maritime | Droit de visite et de perquisition | Droit de capture | ABSTRACT The course of Pearce Higgins is the first study that has been made at The Hague Academy of international law since its foundation on a subject related to the laws of war. After a presentation of the definition of access, the author asks who can exercise the access, and who can be visited. The author then examines the formalities of t…

Fedozzi, Prospero Keywords: Ships | Jurisdiction | Territorial sea | Mots clefs: Navires | Juridiction | Mer territoriale | ABSTRACT The study of Prospero Fedozzi concerns the legal status of foreign commercial ship in the territorial waters of the State and domestic commercial ship in foreign territorial waters: in other words, the author examines the problem of the limits of jurisdiction, in relation to commercial ship, and of the laws and jurisdiction of the State on which the ship depend by virtue of their nationality. L'étude de Prospero Fedozzi concerne la condition juridi…