Regarding "Prize Cases" in the Admiralty courts...
3) To justify the exercise of this right, and legalize the capture of a neutral vessel for violating it, A STATE OF ACTUAL WAR MUST EXIST, and the neutral must have knowledge or notice that it is the intention of the belligerant to blockade the ports of the other. - The Bank of the Commonwealth vs. The Commissioner of Taxes
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/67/635/
"Jesus, he's my friend"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwlr65TbJA
Friend of the court - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae
Tertium Quid - In the Christological debates of the fourth century, it was used to refer to the followers of Apollinaris who spoke of Christ as something neither human nor divine, but a mixture of the two, and therefore a "third thing"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertium_quid
“Amicable compounders. In Louisiana law and practice, amicable compounders are arbitrators authorized to abate something of the strictness of the law in favor of natural equity.”
"Composition of matter" - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/101
Abate - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abate
Isaiah 9:6 KJV - https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Isaiah-9-6/
“Peaceable” = Pacifist - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pacifist
War - : a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war
"peaceably to assemble” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Jus Cogens - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jus_cogens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_norm
A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law. For the purposes of the present Convention, a peremptory norm of general international law is a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of States AS A WHOLE as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character."
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201155/volume-1155-I-18232-English.pdf
"Clausula rebus sic stantibus is the legal doctrine allowing for a contract or a treaty to become inapplicable because of a fundamental change of circumstances. In public international law the doctrine essentially serves an "escape clause" to the general rule...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausula_rebus_sic_stantibus
"No fiction shall extend to WORK AN INJURY, its proper operation being to prevent a mischief or remedy an inconvenience which might result from the general rule of law." - 3 Blackstone's Commentaries (21 ed.) -
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1274904.pdf