The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.
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The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.
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Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
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1655.
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Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
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XXVIII. Of Strangers found in an Enemies Country.
THis Law of Licence is of large extent: for first, it comprehends not only them that actually bear arms, or are subjects to him that maketh war, but also all that are within the enemies Country: which is manifest by the very form in Livy, Lethim be our Enemy, and they that are within his guards. For, danger may be feard from them too, which, in a conti∣nued and universal war, sufficeth to make way for that right of which we speak: otherwise than in pignorations, which, as we have said, after the example of bur∣thens imposed, were introduced for the discharge of publick debts: wherefore it is no wonder, if, as Baldus notes, much more licence be in war than in the right of pignoration. And this which I have said,
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hath no doubt indeed, as to strangers, who after the beginning and notice of the War, come into the enemies quarters. But, they that went thither before, seem by the Law of Nations to be accounted for enemies after some small time , wherein they might have departed. For so the Corcyraeans about to besiege Epidamnum, first allowed strangers liberty to go away, denouncing otherwise they should be ta∣ken for enemies.
Notes
Liv. l. 37. & alibi passim. Hostis sit ille, & qui intea praesi∣dia ejus sunt.
Bem•…•…. 7. hist. Cicero uses that defense in his oration for Ligarius. You have an example in Li∣vy l. 25. of the Citizens of Campania. Other examples in Thucyd. lib. 1. & 5.