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OF

MILITARY LAW.

BY

COLONEL W. WINTHROP,

UNITED STATES ARMY; LATE PROFESSOR OF LAW,
U. 8. MILITARY ACADEMY.

FOURTH AND REVISED EDITION.

FIRST THOUSAND.

NEW YORK:

JOHN WILEY & SONS.
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED,

1901.

COPYRIGHT, 1892,

BY

WILLIAM WINTHROP,

ROBERT DRUMMOND, ELECTROTYPER AND PRINTER, NEW YORK.

PREFACE.

THIS volume is an Abridgment of the Treatise on Military Law and Precedents, in two volumes, published by the author in 1886, of which a second and enlarged edition was issued in 1896. In arranging the present work, all the more extended notes, together with the discussions of doubtful questions, and most of the historical detail, have been omitted, and the original text has been otherwise very materially condensed. The Abridgment, first published in 1887, was prepared with a special view to the instruction of the Cadets. of the United States Military Academy, and was adopted by the Secretary of War, February 14, 1887, as the text-book on military law in the law course of that institution.

The present (fourth) edition incorporates the changes in the law made during the late war with Spain.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 1, 1899.