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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
‘No law ever prohibited neutral caravans in time of war’: The fragility of neutral shipping in the late eighteenth-century Mediterranean
Beteiligte:
Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2016
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Maritime History, 28 (2016) 1, Seite 180-192
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/0843871415624176
ISSN:
0843-8714;
2052-7756
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This article examines the case of the Quintus, a Swedish brigantine engaged in caravan trade to Southern Europe, which was captured in 1797 by a French privateer in the Mediterranean and carried to Spain. The ship was condemned in first instance by the French consul, released in appeal by the civil court of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in Aix-en-Provence, and finally judged anew by the Prize Court in Paris. The analysis of the documents produced by the courts, of the correspondence of the Swedish consul at Marseille, and of a lawyers’ treaty discussing the case clearly points to the fragile status of neutral shipping in a context in which there was a wide range of interpretations of the right to take prize. In examining the discourses that developed during seizures and judgments, the article suggests that the blurred border between neutral and enemy shipping gave birth to a large ‘grey zone’ which can be conceived as a legal, geographical, political and strategic space in which individuals deploy complex strategies and negotiate norms that ultimately make neutral trade possible.