SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON INTERNATIONAL PRIZE LAW AND THE ABOLITION OF MARITIME CAPTURES

Copenhagen: Printed by Bianco Luno [F. S. Muhle]., 1867. Original printed wrappers. 83 pages. Disbound, else Very Good.

Yeaman [1829 - 1908] was a Kentuckian, a lawyer, and a Congressman who served as a Unionist 1862-1865. He provided a crucial vote to enact the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery and lost his seat in the House. He was Ambassador to Denmark when he wrote this essay on maritime captures.
Americans recently experienced the workings of the "Prize Code": the British government's complicity "for the damage lately inflicted upon American commerce by Confederate cruisers." Britain "directly participated in building, manning and arming those cruisers in neutral ports." Americans thus have been left with "a stinging sense of injustice."
Yeaman offers a scholarly treatise endorsing appropriate reforms.
Not in Sabin, Marke, Harv. Law Cat., Bartlett. OCLC locates about fifteen institutional copies.