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Hugo Grotius on the law of war and peace /

An edited and annotated edition of one of the classic works of Western legal and political thought.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
Otros Autores: Neff, Stephen C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Edición:Student ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.