The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...
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The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...
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Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
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1682.
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War (International law)
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"The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42237.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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XIV. And against him, who grants such a Licence in certain cases.
Seventhly, If in the Translation of the Empire it be expresly said, That upon some cer∣tain events that may happen it may be lawful to make resistance. For although it could not then be conceived that by that agreement any part of the Soveraign power was intended to have been retained; yet certainly it may be conceived, that some kind of natural Liber∣ty was thereby understood to have been reserved to the people, and exempted from the power of the King* 1.1. For possible it is for him that alienates his own Right, to diminish and decurt the Right that he gives by certain clauses or Articles of Agreements, whereof we may find in Histories many examples† 1.2.
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* 1.1
Thuan. l. 131. in anno 1604. Id. l. 133. an. 1605. de H••ngaria.