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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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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IV. Possession how got by Instruments, as Nets, &c.

Now this Possession may be gained, either by Hands only, or by Engines, as by Traps, Nets, Snares, Ginns, &c. Provided, first, That those Instruments are un∣der our own power: And secondly, That the Beast so taken cannot escape. And thus is the question decided, concerning a Wild Boar that is fallen into a Snare or Toyl.

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