The Law of Nations - by Emmerich De Vattel

CONTENTS

PRELIMINARIES: Idea and General Principles of the Law of Nations.

BOOK 1: OF NATIONS CONSIDERED IN THEMSELVES.

Chapter 1: Of Nations or Sovereign States.
Chapter 2: General Principles of the Duties of a Nation towards herself.
Chapter 3: Of the Constitution of a State, and the Duties and Rights of a Nation in that respect.
Chapter 4: Of the Sovereign, his Obligations, and his Rights.
Chapter 5: Of States, Elective, Successive, or Hereditary, and of those called Patrimonial.
Chapter 6: Principal Objects of a good Government; and first, to provide for the Necessities of the Nation.
Chapter 7: Of the Cultivation of the Soil.
Chapter 8: Of Commerce.
Chapter 9: Of the Care of the Public Ways; and of Tolls.
Chapter 10: Of Money and Exchange.
Chapter 11: Second Object of a good Government,-to procure the true Happiness of a Nation.
Chapter 12: Of Piety and Religion.
Chapter 13: Of Justice and Polity
Chapter 14: Third Object of a good Government,-to fortify itself against External Attacks.
Chapter 15: Of the Glory of a Nation
Chapter 16: Protection sought by a Nation, and her voluntary submission to a Foreign Power.
Chapter 17: How a Nation may separate herself from the State of which she is a Member, and renounce her Allegiance to her Sovereign when she is not protected.
Chapter 18: Establishment of a Nation in a Country.
Chapter 19: Of our Native Country, and various Matters relating to it.
Chapter 20: Public, Common, and Private Property.
Chapter 21: Of the Alienation of the Public Property, or the Domain, and that of a Part of the State.
Chapter 22: Of Rivers, Streams, and Lakes.
Chapter 23: Of the Sea.

BOOK 2 OF A NATION CONSIDERED IN HER RELATION TO OTHER STATES.

Chapter 1: Of the common Duties of a Nation towards other States, or the Offices of Humanity between Nations.
Chapter 2: Of the Mutual Commerce between Nations.
Chapter 3: Of the Dignity and Equality of Nations,-of Titles,-and other Marks of Honour.
Chapter 4: of the Right to Security, and the Effects of the Sovereignty and Independence of Nations.
Chapter 5: Of the Observance of Justice between Nations.
Chapter 6: Of the Concern a Nation may have in the Actions of her Citizens.
Chapter 7: Effects of the Domain, between Nations.
Chapter 8: Rules respecting Foreigners.
Chapter 9: Of the Rights retained by all Nations after the Introduction of Domain and Property.
Chapter 10: How a Nation is to use her Right of Domain, in order to discharge her Duties towards other Nations, with respect to the Innocent Use of Things.
Chapter 11: Of Usucaption and Prescription between Nations.
Chapter 12: Of Treaties of Alliance and other Public Treaties.
Chapter 13: Of the Dissolution and Renewal of Treaties.
Chapter 14: Of other public Conventions,-of those that are made by Subordinate Powers,-particularly of the Agreement called in Latin Sponsio,-and of Conventions between the Sovereign and Private Persons.
Chapter 15: Of the Faith of Treaties.
Chapter 16: Of Securities given for the Observance of Treaties.
Chapter 17: Of the Interpretation of Treaties.
Chapter 18: Of the Mode of terminating Disputes between Nations.

BOOK 3: OF WAR.

Chapter 1: Of War,-its different Kinds,-and Right of making War.
Chapter 2: Of the Instruments of War,-the Raising of Troops,&c.-their Commanders, or the Subordinate Powers in War.
Chapter 3: Of the Just Causes of War.
Chapter 4: Of the Declaration of War,-and of War in due Form.
Chapter 5: Of the Enemy, and of Things belonging to the Enemy.
Chapter 6: Of the Enemy's Allies,-of Warlike Associations,-of Auxiliaries and Subsidies.
Chapter 7: Of Neutrality,-and the Passage of Troops through a Neutral Country.
Chapter 8: Of the Rights of Nations in War,-and first, of what we have a Right to do, and what we are allowed to do, to the Enemy's Person in a just War.
Chapter 9: Of the Rights of War, with Respect to Things belonging to the Enemy.
Chapter 10: Of Faith between Enemies,-of Stratagems, Artifices in War, Spies, and some other practices.
Chapter 11: Of the Sovereign who wages an unjust war.
Chapter 12: Of the Voluntary Law of Nations, as it regards the Effects of Regular Warfare, independently of the Justice of the Cause.
Chapter 13: Of Acquisitions by War, and particularly of Conquests.
Chapter 14: Of the Right of Postliminium.
Chapter 15: Of the Right of Private Persons in War.
Chapter 16: Of various Conventions made during the Course of the War.
Chapter 17: Of Safe-conducts and Passports, and Questions on the Ransom of Prisoners of War.
Chapter 18: Of Civil War.

BOOK 4: OF THE RESTORATION OF PEACE; AND OF EMBASSIES.

Chapter 1: Of Peace, and the Obligation to cultivate it.
Chapter 2: Treaties of Peace.
Chapter 3: Of the Execution of the Treaty of Peace.
Chapter 4: Of the Observance and Breach of the Treaty of Peace.
Chapter 5: Of the Right of Embassy, or the Right of sending and receiving Public Ministers.
Chapter 6: Of the several Orders of Public Ministers,-of the Representative Character, and of the Honours due to Ministers.
Chapter 7: Of the Rights, Privileges, and the Immunities of Ambassadors, and other Public Ministers.
Chapter 8: Of the Judge of Ambassadors in Civil Cases.
Chapter 9: Of the Ambassador's House and Domestics.

Author: Emmerich De Vattel
Year: 1866
Pages: 667
File Type: PDF
File Size: 25MB

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