Perfidy

Stratagem or Perfidy?: International Incident

In the book “International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes”, in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: In 1783, during war between Great Britain and France, the Sybille, a French frigate, enticed the Hussar, a British man-of-war, by displaying the British flag and intimating herself to be a distressed prize of a British captor. The Hussar approached to succour her, but the latter at once attacked theHussar without shewing the French flag. She was, however, overpowered and captured.

Perfidy

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on perfidy explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Resources

Further Reading

• The entry “perfidy” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press