II. _Simple Cessation of Hostilities_ 262. Exceptional Occurrence of simple Cessation of Hostilities 323 263. Effect of Termination of War through simple Cessation of Hostilities 324 III. _Subjugation_ 264. Subjugation in contradistinction to Conquest 325 265. Subjugation a formal End of War 326 IV. _Treaty of Peace_ 266. Treaty of Peace the most frequent End of War 327 267. Peace Negotiations 328 268. Preliminaries of Peace 329 269. Form and Parts of Peace Treaties 330 270. Competence to conclude Peace 330 271. Date of Peace 331 V. _Effects of Treaty of Peace_ 272. Restoration of Condition of Peace 332 273. Principle of _Uti Possidetis_ 334 274. Amnesty 334 275. Release of Prisoners of War 335 276. Revival of Treaties 336 VI. _Performance of Treaty of Peace_ 277. Treaty of Peace, how to be carried out 337 278. Breach of Treaty of Peace 338 VII. _Postliminium_ 279. Conception of Postliminium 339 280. Postliminium according to International Law, in contradistinction to Postliminium according to Municipal Law 340 281. Revival of the Former Condition of Things 341 282. Validity of Legitimate Acts 342 283. Invalidity of Illegitimate Acts 343 284. No Postliminium after Interregnum 343 PART III--_NEUTRALITY_ CHAPTER I--ON NEUTRALITY IN GENERAL I. _Development of the Institution of Neutrality_ 285. Neutrality not practised in Ancient Times 347 286. Neutrality during the Middle Ages 348 287. Neutrality during the Seventeenth Century 349 288. Progress of Neutrality during the Eighteenth Century 350 289. First Armed Neutrality 352 290. The French Revolution and the Second Armed Neutrality 354 291. Neutrality during the Nineteenth Century 357 292. Neutrality in the Twentieth Century 359 II. _Characteristics of Neutrality_