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 admitted; but the law of war imposes many limi­tations and restrictions on principles of justice, faith, and honor.

A victorious army appropriates all public money, seizes all public movable property until further direction by its government, and sequesters for its own benefit or of that of its government all the revenues of real property belonging to the hostile government or nation. The title to such real prop­erty remains in abeyance during military occupa­tion, and until the conquest is made complete.

A victorious army, by the martial power inher­ent in the same, may suspend, change, or abolish, as far as the martial power extends, the relations which arise from the services due, according to the existing laws of the invaded country, from one citizen, subject, or native of the same to another.

The commander of the army must leave it to the ultimate treaty of peace to settle the permanency of this change.

It is no longer considered lawful—on the con­trary, it is held to be a serious breach of the law of war—to force the subjects of the enemy into the service of the victorious government, except the