Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis

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W. and J. Neal, 1832 - International law - 596 pages

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Contents

CHAPTER IX
69
CHAPTER XI
80
CHAPTER XII
85
Promises what
87
Promises always relate to future time
88
12
89
Promises do not affect the heirs of the promiser
90
A subsequent promise cannot bind where it is contrary to a former promise
91
Promises not to be evaded by a supposed tacit condition of circumstances con tinuing the same
92
Promises of infants ideots and madmen do not bind
93
Signs of consent in promises and acceptance
94
Erroneous promises how made void
96
13
97
What promises may and what may not be recalled when they pass through a third hand
98
Effects of acceptance by another either with or without commission
99
A mans heirs cannot accept a promise for him
100
CHAPTER XIII
102
Contracts are either of partial or of mutual benefit
103
The nature and obligation of a loan of inconsumable goods
104
14
105
The nature and obligation of a charge
107
Contracts of mutual benefit either share the matter or make it common
108
Incapacity of either party to be obliged voids a contract
110
Equality in the previous acts relates to knowledge and freedom
111
15
113
Equality in the matter relates to faults in the goods or errors in the price unknown to either party
114
Want of an equivalent how supplied in auctions
115
Fair price is the market price
117
Advantages by the introduction of money
118
Metals the most proper materials for money
120
16
121
Uses and rules of coining
122
Use of money varies the price of goods
123
Buying and selling
124
Letting and renting
126
Letting and hiring of labour
128
17
129
Usury why forbidden by the Mosaic law
132
Questions relating to a loan
134
18
137
Contracts of chance their nature and obligation
142
19
145
20
153
21
161
22
169
23
177
How benevolence affects the right of defence
188
Defence of life
189
Defence of limbs or of chastity
191
Defence against slight personal injuries
192
Mistakes in matters of honour whence they arise
194
Obligation arising from a crime what
214
Who may punish in a state of natural liberty IX What crimes are punishable by men in the equality of nature
217
What guilt is
218
How guilt is estimated
219
Measure of punishment how adjusted
221
Mercy or clemency how exercised
224
How the goods of a criminal are affected by punishment
226
Accessories to a crime punishable
228
Those who have no share in a crime not punishable
229
Obligation to punishment does not descend from the ancestor to the heir
235
CHAPTER XIX
236
CHAPTER XX
238
31
241
32
249
CHAPTER II
254
Civil power is legislative or executive II Origin of civil power
270
Prerogative what
279
Civil and military force how distinguished
281
CHAPTER IV
282
Titles or appearances do not determine the nature of a constitution
316
Tenure of civil power to be distinguished from the power itself
317
Promise or oath of a king may limit his power
322
Mixed constitutions
325
Civil constitutions may be altered
326
CHAPTER VI
357
Civil laws are written or unwritten
395
Interpretation what
404
Opinion of Grotius explained
458
Treason and rebellion how guarded against notwithstanding right of resistance
480
Questions about extent of territory belong to the law of nations
482
A nation may be accountable for the act of one of its members
508
Members of a nation accountable for injuries done by it
516
One nation may lawfully assist another in war
519
What is lawful in war
525
Property how acquired in war
530
What prevents prisoners of war from being slaves
537
Effects of a declaration of war
538
Law of nations in respect of states that are neutral in a war
540
69
545
Privileges of ambassadors how far natural
550
70
553
Public compacts are either treaties or sponsions
555
Compacts between nations at peace or nations at war
560
71
561
Equal and unequal compacts of nations
563
Compacts of the same matter with the law of nations or of different matter
564
CHAPTER X
565
72
569
73
577
74
585
75
593

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