Diplomatists did appeal to it, and the prize tribunals, in administering the law, stated distinctly that they would be guided by and would apply the principles of that law, even if the orders issued by the administrative Government of their own country were at variance with it.

The decision of the Privy Council in the case of the _Zamora_ establishes the principle that the law which prize courts will follow is International Law, and that they will do so though some Order in Council may conflict with it.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: How strong this belief was among many of those who had often been in opposition to the British Government was shown at a meeting in Bombay early in the War.

The enthusiastic speech of the chairman, the late Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, one of the ablest and most persistent critics of British rule in India for very many years, is one to be remembered.].