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Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land and its annex: Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907. States parties and signatories.
Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907. (List of Contracting Parties) Seeing that while seeking means to preserve peace and prevent armed conflicts between nations, it is likewise necessaryto bear in mind the case where the appeal to arms has been
in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and the dictates of the public conscience.
science, is forbidden, and should be made the subject of legal pro-. ceedings. *In 1907 the provisions on this subj ect, Articles 57, 58, 59 and 60, were trans-. ferred to the Convention (V) respecting the rights and duties of neutral Pow-. ers and persons in case of war on land as Articles 11, 12, 14 and 15 thereof.
The provisions of the two Conventions on land warfare, like most of the substantive provisions of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, are considered as embodying rules of customary international law. As such they are also binding on states which are not formally parties to them.
Prisoners of war shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders in force in the army of the State in whose power they are. Any act of insubordination justifies the adoption towards them of such measures of severity as may be considered necessary.
These were a not very radical revision of their predecessor, the 1899 Hague Convention II with its Annexed Regulations (DOCUMENT NO. 28). They represented the applicable law of war on land in both of the World Wars of the first half of the 20th century. EXTRACTS.