On the Law of War and Peace

By Grotius, Hugo

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Title:	On the Law of War and Peace
Author:	Grotius, Hugo
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Language:	English
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Excerpt: On War and Right Of War Definition of War Right, of Governors and of the governed, and of equals Right as a Quality divided into Faculty and Fitness Faculty denoting Power, Property, and Credit Divided into Private and Superior Right as a Rule, natural and voluntary Law of Nature divided Proofs of the Law of Nature Division of Rights into human and divine Human explained Divine stated Mosaic Law not binding upon Christians. I. THE disputes arising among those who are held together by no common bond of civil laws to decide their dissensions, like the ancient Patriarchs, who formed no national community, or the numerous, unconnected communities, whether under the direction of individuals, or kings, or persons invested with Sovereign power, as the leading men in an aristocracy, and the body of the people in a republican government; the disputes, arising among any of these, all bear a relation to the circumstances of war or peace. But because war is undertaken for the sake of peace, and there is no dispute, which may not give rise to war, it will be proper to treat all such quarrels, as commonly happen, between nations, as an article in the rights of war: and then war itself will lead us to peace, as to its proper end.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: On the Law of War and Peace, 1 -- Hugo Grotius, 1 -- Book I, 2 -- Chapter 1: On War and Right, 2 -- Chapter 2: Inquiry Into the Lawfulness of War, 8 -- Chapter 3: The Divison of War Into Public and Private and the Nature of Sovereign Power, 20 -- Book II, 29 -- Chapter 1: Defense of Person and Property, 29 -- Chapter 2: The General Rights of Things, 35 -- Chapter 3: On Moveable Property, 43 -- Chapter 4: Title to Desert Lands by Occupancy, Possession, and Prescription, 46 -- Chapter 9: In What Cases Jurisdiction and Property Cease, 50 -- Chapter 10: The Obligation Arising From Property, 53 -- Chapter 11: On Promises, 57 -- Chapter 12: On Contracts, 63 -- Chapter 13: On Oaths, 70 -- Chapter 15: On Treaties and on Engagements Made by Delegates Exceeding their Power, 73 -- Chapter 16: The Interpretation of Treaties, 78 -- Chapter 17: On Damages Occasioned by Injury and the Obligation to Repair Them, 87 -- Chapter 18: On the Right of Embassies, 91 -- Chapter 19: On the Right of Burial, 97 -- Chapter 20: On Punishments, 100 -- Chapter 21: On the Communication of Punishment, 118 -- Chapter 22: On the Unjust Causes of War, 124 -- Chapter 23: On Doubtful Causes, 127 -- Chapter 24: Precautions Against Rashly Engaging in War, Even Upon Just Grounds, 130 -- Chapter 25: The Causes of Undertaking War for Others, 133 -- Book III, 135 -- Chapter 1: What is Lawful in War, 135 -- Chapter 2: In What Manner the Law of Nations Renders the Property of Subjects -- Answerable for the Debts of Sovereigns. The Nature of Reprisals, 144 -- Chapter 3: On Just or Solemn War According to the Law of Nations on Declarations of -- War, 147 -- Chapter 4: On the Right of Killing an Enemy in Lawful War, and Committing Other Acts -- of Hostility, 152 -- Chapter 5: On the Right to Lay Waste an Enemy's Country, and Carry off his Effects, 157 -- Chapter 6: On the Acquisition of Territory and Property by Right of Conquest, 158 -- Chapter 7: On the Right Over Prisoners of War, 164 -- Chapter 8: On Empire Over the Conquered, 165 -- Chapter 9: Of the Right of Postliminium, 166 -- Chapter 11: The Right of Killing Enemies, in Just War, to be Tempered With Moderation -- and Humanity, 170 -- Chapter 12: On Moderation in Despoiling an Enemy's Country, 174 -- Chapter 13: On Moderation in Making Captures in War, 175 -- Chapter 15: On Moderation in Acquiring Dominion, 177 -- Chapter 16: On Moderation with Respect to Things Excluded From the Right of -- Postliminium by the Law of Nations, 178 -- Chapter 17: Respecting Those Who are Neutral in War, 179