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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Subject terms: International law.; War (International law)
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XI. Not the peo∣ples patrimo∣ny.

That part of the peoples Patrimony (being amongst the ancient Grecians a part of the common Fields) the fruits whereof were designed for the maintenance either of the pub∣lick charge of the Common-wealth, or of the Royal dignity, cannot either in the whole, or in any the least part thereof, be alienated by Kings without the consent of the three States, that is, the Clergy, Nobles, and Commons; because they have no right to any thing more than to the present profits, no not to the smallest part of it, as I have said: For, Quod meum non est, ejus nec exiguam partem alienare mihi jus est; Of that which is not mine, I cannot alienate the smallest part. Yet the people may sooner be presumed to consent by their knowledge and silence, in such small matters than in greater: And the like may be presumed in cases of common profit or danger, concerning the alienation of some parts of the Empire, if it be not of any great moment, for that Patrimony was at first instituted for the good of the Empire.