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 ...

III. By Debt is un∣derstood the subsequent charges also.

Besides, the things belonging to our Enemies Subjects may be taken and kept, not only to reimburse our selves of our original Debt, which was the ground of the War; but to repair our losses and expences in the War, according to what hath been already said in the beginning of this Book. And thus must we u••derstand that which some Divines have written, namely, That things taken in War are not to be equalled with the principal Debt, that is, un∣til satisfaction be made, according to sound judgment, for the damage done in the War it self. Thus the Romans, in their Treaty with Antiochus, adjudged it equitable, That the King should bear the charges of the War, through whose default it was that the War began. So Justine, Impensas Belli Lege Justa suscepturus, qui Belli Author est; He that is the Author of the War, ought by the Law of Arms to bear the charges of it. The like we find in Thucydides, where the Samians are condemned to defray the charges of the War. Now whatsoever is justly imposed on the vanquished, may by the Conquerour be exacted by force of Armes.