The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns

Emer de Vattel

T. & J. W. Johnson, 1844 - International law - 492 pages

Contents

• PRELIMINARIES Idea and general Principles of the Law of Nations Sect Page 1 WHAT is meant by a nation or state Iv: lii
• Positive law of nations: lxiv
• BOOK I: lxvi
• CHAP III: 8
• He ought to know the nation: 13
• Sect: 15
• 52: 21
• CHAP V: 24
• Sect: 29
• States called patrimonial: 30
• for the distribution of land: 33
• He is intrusted with the obligations of the nation and invested: 41
• BOOK IV: 42
• 118: 43
• Mutual respect due by sovereigns to each other: 47
• CHAP XII: 54
• Sect: 70
• 153: 73
• Sec: 76
• Utility of Agriculture: 77
• Internal police: 83
• Utility of domestic trade: 84
• Prohibition of foreign merchandises: 90
• Voluntary submission of one nation to another: 92
• Imprescriptibility of rights founded on treaty: 96
• Colonies: 99
• Sect Page 228 Exile and banishment ib 229 The exile and the banished man have a right to live somewhere: 100
• Its rights in that respect: 102
• Obligation founded on use and custom: 106
• How one nation may injure another in the article of coin: 108
• A nation cannot punish them for faults committed out of her ter ritories: 109
• Two modes of acquiring public property: 110
• Taxes: 111
• Freedom of philosophical discussion: 114
• Right still remaining from the primitive state of communion: 117
• Sect: 119
• 123 Right of passage: 123
• The sea and its: 125
• Duty of the citizens: 128
• The parts of the sea possessed by a sovereign are within his juris: 131
• Right accruing from a general permission: 137
• Attacking the glory of a nation is doing her an injury: 140
• Immemorial prescription: 143
• CHAP VIII: 144
• CHAP III: 148
• Right to security: 153
• CHAP V: 159
• Effects of the Domain between Nations Sect Page 79 General effects of the domain: 164
• Possessions of certain places only or of certain rights in a va cant country: 165
• CHAP VIII: 168
• Escheatage: 176
• The right of trait foraine: 177
• What are the right of which men cannot be deprived: 178
• Other principles that enforce prescription: 186
• Example of the Swiss: 190
• CHAP XII: 192
• The personal alliance expires if one of the parties ceases to reign: 195
• Alliance concluded for the defence of the king and royal family: 196
• Obligation of a real alliance when the allied king is deposed: 212
• Of the Dissolution and Renewal of Treaties: 213
• Vagrants: 219
• Sources of their right: 225
• CHAP XV: 228
• Faith tacitly pledged: 234
• The nation may reserve to herself the right of imposing them: 241
• Sovereign possessing that power: 242
• First rule in cases of collision: 243
• Duties of the prince with respect to taxes 112: 244
• Dominion over public property 113: 246
• Alienation of the property of a corporation: 247
• Use of common property 114: 249
• Rights of anticipation in the use of it: 250
• The same right in another case: 251
• Preservation and repairs of common possessions 115: 254
• The sovereign may subject it to regulations of police 116: 256
• The nation may alienate her public property 116: 257
• Duties of the nation in that respect: 258
• Duties of the prince 117: 259
• He cannot alienate the public property: 260
• The nation may give her a right to do it: 261
• Rules on that subject with respect to treaties between nation and ib nation 263 Alienation of a part of the state 118 ib 264 Rights of the dismembered ...: 265
• A rule on that subject: 274
• The rule for these two cases: 280
• Interpretation drawn from the connection and relation of: 286
• Of the Instruments of War the Raising of troops c their Command: 293
• Things favourable and things odious: 300
• Justificatory reasons and motives for making: 301
• Things of a mixed nature: 306
• Sometimes reputed lawful ib 41 War undertaken to punish a nation: 307
• Alone and of itself it cannot give a right to attack him: 308
• How the appearances of danger give that right: 309
• Another case more evident: 310
• Other allowable means of defence against a formidable power: 311
• Political equilibrium ib 48 Ways of maintaining it: 312
• Second rule: 313
• CHAP IV: 314
• Eighth rule: 319
• What is lawful war in due form ib 67 It is to be distinguished from informal and unlawful war: 320
• How nations may abandon their rights and just complaints: 325
• Distinction to be made between evident and doubtful cases: 331
• Possessors right in doubtful cases: 337
• What is required to render them lawful: 343
• CHAP VIII: 346
• Those who have given cause for reprisals are bound to indemni: 349
• Women children the aged and sick ib 146 Clergy men of letters c: 352
• Peasants and in general all who do not carry arms ib 148 The right of making prisoners of war: 353
• A prisoner of war not to be put to death: 354
• How prisoners of war are to be treated ib 151 Whether prisoners who cannot be kept or fed may be put to death: 355
• Disposition to be entertained towards an enemy: 362
• What is withheld from him in order to oblige him to give just satisfaction: 365
• Waste and destruction ib 167 Ravaging and burning: 367
• Demolition of fortresses: 369
• Spies: 376
• Whether the offers of a traitor may be accepted: 377
• Deceitful intelligence ib CHAP XI: 378
• Of the Voluntary Law of Nations as it regards the Effects of Regular Warfare independently of the Justice of the Cause 188 Nations not rigidly to enf...: 381
• ges an unjust war: 383
• CHAP XIII: 384
• Rules of the voluntary law of nations: 385
• Acquisition of moveable property ib 197 Acquisition of immoveables or conquests: 386
• How to transfer them validly: 387
• Conditions on which a conquered town is acquired ib 200 Lands of private persons: 388
• Conquest of the whole state ib 202 To whom the conquest belongs: 389
• CHAP XIV: 392
• What things are recoverable by that right: 394
• Of those who cannot return by the right of postliminium ib 211 They enjoy that right when retaken ib 212 Whether that right extends to their proper...: 395
• Whether a nation that has been entirely subdued can enjoy the right of postliminium: 396
• Right of postliminium for what is restored at the peace: 397
• CHAP XV: 398
• Privateers ib 230 Volunteers: 401
• What soldiers and subalterns may do ib 232 Whether the state is bound to indemnify the subjects for damages sustained in war: 402
• CHAP XVI: 403
• CHAP XVII: 415
• Hostage given for the release of a prisoner ib CHAP XVIII: 420
• He is bound to perform the promises he has made to the rebels: 423
• A civil war produces two independent parties 425: 426
• Conduct to be pursued by foreign nations: 427
• OF THE RESTORATION OF PEACE AND OF EMBASSIES CHAP I: 429
• The sovereigns obligation in that respect ib 4 Extent of that duty ib 5 Disturbers of the public peace: 430
• A state ought to retain her rank notwithstanding any changes: 432
• individuals: 434
• Whether a king who is a prisoner of war can make a peace ib 14 Whether peace can be made with an usurper: 436
• Allies included in the treaty of peace ib 16 Associates to treat each for himself: 437
• Mediation ib 18 On what footing peace may be concluded ib 19 General effect of the treaty of peace: 438
• CHAP III: 439
• given themselves up: 443
• A subsequent alliance with an enemy is likewise no breach of the treaty: 447
• Causes of rupture on account of allies: 449
• His duty with respect to the preservation and perfection of: 451
• that right: 452
• Right of the princes and states of the empire in that respect ib 60 Cities that have the right of banner: 454
• Ministers of viceroys: 455
• The minister of a friendly power is to be received: 456
• Sect Page 67 Admission of an enemys ministers: 457
• Ambassadors ib 72 Envoys: 458
• Residents ib 74 Ministers ib 75 Consuls agents deputies commissioners c: 460
• CHAP VII: 464
• Heralds trumpeters and drummers: 468
• Ministers trumpeters c to be respected even in a civil war ib 89 Sometimes they may be refused admittance: 469
• Independence of foreign ministers ib 93 How the foreign minister is to behave: 472
• How he may be punished for ordinary transgressions: 475
• Right of repressing him by force if he behaves as an enemy: 476
• Ambassador forming dangerous plots and conspiracies ib 99 What may be done to him according to the exigency of the case: 478

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns; The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, Emer de Vattel
• Author: Emer de Vattel
• Edition: 6
• Publisher: T. & J. W. Johnson, 1844
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 11, 2009
• Length: 492 pages