LAW, MARTIAL
Martial law is a code established for the government of the army and navy of
the United States.
2. Its principal rules are to be found in the articles of war. (q. v.) The
object of this code, or body of regulations is to, maintain that order and
discipline, the fundamental principles of which are a due obedience of the
several ranks to their proper officers, a subordination of each rank to their
superiors, and the subjection of the whole to certain rules of discipline,
essential to their acting with the union and energy of an organized body. The
violations of this law are to be tried by a court martial. (q. v.)
3. A military commander has not the power, by declaring a district to be under
martial law, to subject all the citizens to that code, and to suspend the
operation of the writ of habeas corpus. 3 Mart. (Lo.) 531. Vide Hale's Hist. C.
L. 38; 1 Bl. Com. 413; Tytler on Military Law; Ho. on C. M.; M'Arth. on C. M.;
Rules and Articles of War, art. 64, et seq; 2 Story, L. U. S. 1000.
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