Hugo Grotius on the law of war and peace /

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Main Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Neff, Stephen C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Latin.
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Edition:Student ed.
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240 1 0 |a De jure belli ac pacis libri tres.  |l English 
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Book I. What is war? : what is law? -- Whether it is ever lawful to wage war -- Distinction between public and private war; explanation of sovereignty (summi imperii) -- War of subjects against superiors -- Who may lawfully wage war -- Book II. The causes of war : first, defence of self and property -- Of things which belong to men in common -- Of original acquisitions of things, with special reference to the sea and rivers -- On assumed abandonment of ownership and occupation consequent thereon; and wherein this differs from ownership by usucaption and by prescription -- On the original acquisition of rights over persons. Herein are treated the rights of parents, marriage, associations, and the rights over subjects and slaves -- On secondary acquisition of property by the act of man; also, alienation of sovereignty and of the attributes of sovereignty -- On derivative acquisition of property which takes place in accordance with law; and herein, intestate succession -- On acquisitions commonly said to be by the law of nations -- When sovereignty or ownership ceases -- On the obligation which arises from ownership -- On promises -- On contracts -- On oaths -- On promises, contracts, and oaths of those who hold sovereign power -- On treaties and sponsions -- On interpretation -- On damage caused through injury, and the obligation arising therefrom -- On the right of legation -- On the right of sepulchre -- On punishments -- On the sharing of punishments -- On unjust causes [of wars] -- On doubtful causes of wars -- Warnings not to undertake war rashly, even for just causes -- On the causes of undertaking war on behalf of others -- On just causes for war waged by those who are under the rule of another -- Book III. General rules from the law of nature regarding what is permissible in war; with a consideration of ruses and falsehood -- How by the law of nations the goods of subjects may be held for the debt of their rulers; and therein, on reprisals -- On war that is lawful or public according to the law of nations; and therein, on the declaration of war -- On the right of killing enemies in a public war, and on other violence against the person -- Of devastation and pillage -- On the right of acquiring things taken in war -- On the right over prisoners of war -- On the right to rule over the conquered -- On postliminy -- Cautions in regard to things which are done in an unlawful war -- Moderation with respect to the right of killing in a lawful war -- Moderation in laying waste and similar things -- Moderation in regard to captured property -- Moderation in regard to prisoners of war -- Moderation in the acquisition of sovereignty -- Moderation in regard to those things which by the law of nations have not the right of postliminy -- On those who are of neither side in war -- On acts done by individuals in a public war -- On good faith between enemies -- On the good faith of states, by which war is ended; also on the working of peace treaties, on decision by lot, on combat by agreements; on arbitration, surrender, hostages and pledges -- On good faith during war; herein also concerning a truce, the right of safe-conduct, and the ransom of prisoners -- On the good faith of subordinate powers in war -- On good faith of private persons in war -- On implied good faith -- Conclusion, with admonitions on behalf of good faith and peace. 
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