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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset ... and Ralph Smith ...,; 1682.
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VII. Secondarily.

Secondarily, they are bound to reparation which give their advice before it be done, or that commend them that did it, being done. For as Totilas in his Oration to the Goths observes, He that commends a Malefactor, even he is to be reputed the Author of the fact: And as Ʋlpian speaks concerning an evil Servant, whom (if upon the discovery of his intentions, to run away from his Master, or to steal any thing from him) another man shall commend, That man is bound to give satisfaction; for we ought not by our commendations to encourage a Malefactor to sin. For, as Cicero observes in his Philippicks, What difference is there between him that perswades to an unjust act, and him that com∣mends it, being done?