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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London :: Printed by M.W. for Thomas Basset ... and Ralph Smith ...,
1682.
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International law.
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 May 6, 2024.
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XIX. A right of buying neces∣saries.
To procure those things at an equal rate, every man (we say) hath a Common Right; unless they from whom such things are required, do themselves stand in need of them: As in the time of a Common dearth we usually forbid the transportation of Corn; For,that the Natives should first be fed with the fruits of their own Land is but reasonable. And yet in so necessitous a time, the strangers whom we have once admitted, we can∣not expel. For, Commune Malum communiter tolerandum; Common Calamities must be born in Common.