Balancing Strategy examines how neutrality and prize-law shaped eighteenth century maritime strategy, and the development of seapower.

Reprint of the only edition.

The only English translation of the first book of its kind, enhanced by Professor Seipp's detailed Table of Contents demonstrating the exhaustive scope of the work, followed by his new introductory essay.

The volume is presented as six chapters, plus a conclusion appraising privateering, and seven appendices containing court details, prize listings, and relevant letters of agency.

"Hazards and costs to other persons are of no concern to the lawyer, who must not regard alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring others.

"Hazards and costs to other persons are of no concern to the lawyer, who must not regard alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring others.

"The prize code (prisenordnung) bears a date of September 30, 1909. It was published in the Bulletin of laws (Reichsgesetzblatt) of August 3, 1914, being no. 50 of 1914, and forms pages 275 to 300 thereof."--Note, p. 1.

Opinion delivered by the Pennsylvania High Court of Errors and Appeals in the case of Dempsey, assignee of Brown, vs. The Insurance Company of Pennsylvania.

With an appendix containing Prize Court rules, detailed rules of the High Prize Court, regulations governing capture at sea, and regulations governing the safe-keeping of captured property in the naval warehouse.