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 ...

I. The division of what we call Ours.

THat War may be undertaken for Injuries not done, we have seen proved. Now it follows, that according to the order we proposed, we discourse of the Second Branch of the causes justifying a War, namely, for Injuries actu∣ally done. And herein, first of Injuries done against that which is ours: Now of that which is ours, Some things are ours by a Right common with all Mankind, and some things are ours, in our own particular Right. We shall begin with that which is ours in common with others. This Common Right is either directly in some Corporeal thing, or to some Acts. Things Corporeal are either such as do admit of no propriety, or such as properly belong to some persons. Of things whereof there is as yet no propriety, some there are that cannot be impropriated, and some there are that may. Now that this may be rightly understood, we must search into the rise or be∣ginning of propriety, which Lawyers call Dominion.