The recruitment of mercenaries and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870

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The recruitment of mercenaries and the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870
Statewatch no.1 March/April 1991
refdoc May=1991

Joseph Jaconelli, Public Law, Autumn 1990 pp337-341. The legal position of
British mercenaries in Angola and Colombia is discussed. The present law only
covers recruitment to foreign regular armies not private armies.

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