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32 with the enemy was forbidden, the neutral vessel carrying enemies' cargoes was itself confiscated, and also the neutral cargo in an enemy's vessel.

The maritime ordinance of 1681 reaffirmed all these three extensions of what I may call normal belligerent rights as laid down in the Consolato del Mare.

By the marine ordinance of 1704 still further extensions were introduced in retaliation, be it said, of the Anglo-Dutch measures adopted by William of Orange against the power of Louis XIV. All articles of the produce and manufacture of the enemy's country on board a neutral were made seizable (although not entailing the confiscation of the neutral vessel itself as was the case with enemy's property).

The marine ordinance of 1744 modified the severity of these above mentioned rules, so that only enemies' property and produce were confiscated but not the neutral vessel.

And in 1773 a full return was made