Military Law. by William Winthrop 1831-1899.Call Number: KF 7209 .W56 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Preface to the first edition of 1896 -- Preface to the present edition -- I. 1. The subject defined and divided : constitutional provisions -- 2. The written law : articles of war and other disciplinary statutes -- 3. Army regulations and orders -- 4. The unwritten military law -- 5. The court-martial : its history and nature -- 6. The constitution of general courts-martial -- 7. The composition of general courts-martial -- 8. The jurisdiction of the general courts-martial -- 9. The procedure of general courts-martial : arrest -- 10. The charge -- 11. The formal ordering, meeting, &c., of the court -- 12. The president and members -- 13. The judge advocate -- 14. Challenges -- 15. Organization, arraignment, continuance, nolle prosequi -- 16. Pleas and motions -- 17. The trial : hours of session, opening, course of proceedings, defence, statement, contempt -- 18. Evidence -- 19. The finding -- 20. Sentence and punishment -- 21. Action on the proceedings, the reviewing authority -- 22. Inferior courts-martial and military boards -- 23. The record -- 24. Courts of inquiry -- 25. The articles of war separately considered -- II. The law of war. The law of war as affecting the rights of our own people -- The law of war as affecting intercourse between enemies in general -- The law of war as specially applicable to enemies in arms -- The status of military government and the laws of war thereto pertaining -- The status of martial law and the laws of war applicable thereto -- Trial and punishment of offences under the law of war : the military commission -- Military authority and jurisdiction under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 -- III. Civil functions and relations of the military. Employment of the military in a civil or quasi civil capacity -- Liability of the military to civil suit or prosecution -- Other civil relations of the military -- Appendix.