An Exposition of Fecial Law and Procedure, or of Law Between Nations, and Questions Concerning the Same, Vol. 2

Excerpt from An Exposition of Fecial Law and Procedure, or of Law Between Nations, and Questions Concerning the Same, Vol. 2: Wherein Are Set Forth Matters Regarding Peace and War Between Different Princes or Peoples, Derived From the Most Eminent Historical Jurists

Law between Nations is the law which is recognized in the com munity of different princes or peoples who hold sovereign power - that is to say, the law which has been accepted among most nations by customs in harmony with reason, and that upon which Single nations agree with one another, and which is observed by nations at peace and by those at war. Peace is a legal concord between different princes or peoples whereby they live one with another in security; and its law regards Status, Ownership, Duty, and Wrong, among those at peace.

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