 | Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association. Meeting - 1903 - 410 страници
...the Philippines. General Order 100, by which our army is governed, contains the express provision : " Military necessity does not admit of cruelty; that...except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions." What officer or man in our army of the many who were guilty ever received any real punishment for inflicting... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1983 - 178 страници
...public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God." Military necessity "does not admit of cruelty —...suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge"; but it is "lawful to starve the hostile belligerent, armed or unarmed, so that it leads to the speedier... | |
 | Dietrich Schindler, Jiří Toman - 1988 - 1084 страници
...war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God. Art. 16. Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that...for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in Tight, nor of torture to extort confessions. It does not admit of the use of poison in any way, nor... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 370 страници
...note 28, Art. 16, which described military necessity and declared that the principle did not allow "cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for...for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in Tight, nor of Furthermore, in actual combat situations it is not necessary to kill prisoners of war... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - 1989 - 414 страници
...From the point of view of what we now know as human rights, it prescribed, among other things, that military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that...suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge ... the unarmed citizen is to be spared in person, property, and honor as much as the exigencies of... | |
 | Richard MacKay Price - 1997 - 254 страници
...Known as the "Lieber Code" after its author, it proscribed the use of poison by virtue of Article 16: "Military necessity does not admit of cruelty —...of the use of poison in any way, nor of the wanton destruction of a district."17 The association of poison with such characteristics as cruelty and unnecessary... | |
 | Theodor Meron - 1998 - 360 страници
...not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God." l Furthermore, "[m]ilitary necessity does not admit of cruelty -...except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions [or] ... of the use of poison [or] ... of the wanton devastation of a district," 22 The distinction... | |
 | Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer E. Turpin - 1999 - 857 страници
...codifications and treaties, down to this day. Some examples: Military necessity does not admit of cruelty . . . of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture...confessions. It does not admit of the use of poison . . . nor of the wanton devastation of a district. . . . [It] does not include any act of hostility... | |
 | Gabrielle Kirk McDonald - 2000 - 2506 страници
...responsible to one another and to God. Article 16 Military necessity does not admit of cruelty-that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming of wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions. It does not admit of the use of... | |
 | Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law - 1998 - 262 страници
...beings, responsible to one another and to God. 16 Military necessity does not admit of cruelty—that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering...admits of deception, but disclaims acts of perfidy. . . . n [A]s civilization has advanced during the last centuries ... [t]he principle has been more... | |
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty — that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions. 
