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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• LAcedemonians prefer the Son born after the Father is King, before him born be∣fore, 132. they used more craft than force in their War, 437. their custom concerning Lands taken page 410
• Levinus his advice to the Roman Senate page 56
• Lands taken in War are his that maintains it, 472. when said to be gained, 470. may be sold, the measure named, and yet not according to that measure page 137
• Lands, some divided and artificially fenced, some assigned by measure, and some arcifi∣nious page 94
• Lands if in doubt not judged arcifinious, ibid. now found, if prepossest no ground of War, if drowned where presumed to be deserted page 137
• Lands drowned naturally not lost, ibid. gain∣ed by War several ways disposed, yet al∣ways as the People ordered, 472. recovered by Postliminy page 491
• Humane Laws may ordain things preterna∣tural,

• but not things against nature page 81, 89
• A Lawmaker may take away the condemning power of the Law as to particular Acts or Persons page 376, 377
• Law what, 4. of Nature, what it is, ibid. from whence, Pref. v. in some sence the Law of God, vi. not alterable by God him∣self, 5. distinguish'd into that which is so purely, and that which is so for some cer∣tain States. page 140
• The Law of Moses taken in a twofold sence, carnally and spiritually page 17
• Law Ceremonial and Judicial, when and how taken away, 19. Mosaical, hath neither first nor last page 110
• The Law of Nature and Nations takes place where the Civil cannot be exercised page 368
• The Law of Nature explained by those given by God Pref. vi
• The Law of Nature how proved and distin∣guished from others, Pref. xiv. nothing in the Old Law repugnant unto it, xviii. it hath sometimes some shew of change, Pref. ix
• The Laws of Nature and Nations violated, e∣very Prince may make War page 384
• Every man takes that to be the Law of Nature that it first imbibes page 385
• The Law doth not always null what it for bids, 37. of Tythes and the Sabbath how ob∣liging Christians page 10
• A Law implies every mans express conse••t, 517. grounded upon presumption of a fact never done, obligeth not page 152, 153
• The Laws of Holland for Lands drowned page 137
• The Roman Law concerning such Contracts, wherein the inequality is above half the va∣lue page 160, 161
• The Law in permitting a private man to kill a Thief, whether it frees the conscience, page 76, 373, 374
• The Civil Law may forbid what naturally is Lawful page 81
• The Law of Ʋsucapion, whether it extends to the Supreme Power, 101. or to its parts ibid.
• The universal reason of the Law particularly failing in any one fact, the Law may be di∣spensed with page 153, 377
• How far a Law-maker obligeth himself page 377, &c.
• Hebrew Laws forbidding Polygamy and Di∣vorce page 105, 106
• What Laws oblige page 530
• The Hebrew Laws Copies for Christians, except in three Cases page 10
• Laws and Contracts, how they differ, 178. not all obliging, 178, 179. common Agreements amongst the People, 150, 151. some very unjust page 121
• Laws adjudging Criminals to death to be fa∣vourably interpreted, 59. the Divine Laws judging to death have sometimes tacite exce∣ptions ibid.
• Laws respect that which is generally profitable, 56. some may be made decreeing when and how the Supreme shall be lost page 101
• Laws concerning things promised oblige, 152. judging to death the Relations of criminal Malefactors, unjust page 403
• Law Civil concerning the promises of Minors page 152
• Laws pinnacle the hand, Philosophy the mind, 160. respect not small cheats, and why, ibid. diverse concerning buying and selling page 161
• Law, Divine voluntary, how different from the Law of Nature, 7. it obliged before it was written, 8. Civil what, 7. whence, Pref. vii. Ceremonial, when abrogated, and the Judicial when page 9
• Laws given to the Jews oblige not Strangers, 8. to the Mos cal Law the Israelites only stood obliged, but to that of Circumci∣sion all Abraham's Posterity page 9
• Laws have two Parts, directive to Kings, and coercive to Subjects page 39
• Laws given by God three times, to Adam, Noah, Christ, 8. the Old not useless by the coming of the New Pref. xviii
• Laws should command things possible, 375. give testimony of their integrity page 430
• Laws differ from counsels, and how, 3, 4. and from permission, and how page 4.
• A Law made against Murtherers by Force and Armes, judgeth all sorts of Murtherers page 196, 197
• Laws guide to wisdom Pref. ix.
• Laws may so far proceed against a King as to evidence the Right of the Creditor, but not to compel him page 177, 178
• Contrary to Law things done not nulled, un••ess so exprest by the Law it self page 147
• Laws bind not in cases of extreme necessity page 567
• Laws made to avoid greater mischiefs only, must not be so understood as to make that sinful which is otherwise lawful page 483
• Laws without a coercive power externally weak Pref. ix
• Laws and Arms opposed Pref. ii.
• The six Laws given to Adam, what page 8
• There is the same Law, where is the same reason or equity page 196
• Humane Laws to be interpreted with some al∣lowance for humane frailty page 59
• The Law in prohibiting, doubles the offence, 380. of Moses erroneously quoted for that of Nature Pref. xviii.
• Without Laws no community can consist, Pref. ix
• Laws humane depend upon the will of the ma∣ker for their institution and continuation page 21, 22
• Laws may bind as to humane judgment that bind not the Conscience, 483. nor bind long∣er than the coercive power lasts, ibid. se∣vere in the defence of Kings page 61
• Laws commanding, stronger than those that permit; and those that forbid, stronger than

• those that command page 199
• The reason of a Law particularly failing shall not exempt that case from the Law, but it may be dispensed with page 35
• Lawful, taken either for that which is just and honest, or for that which is not punish∣able page 456
• The Law of Nations how beneficial, Pref. ix. it is like the Soul in the Body page 451
• Humane Laws depend upon the will of the Lawmaker, both for their institution and continuation page 377
• A League, what, 181. when said to be re∣newed, 187. void if by either broken ibid.
• Of Leagues, the Ancienter to be prefer'd, ibid. that made with a Free people real, ibid. that with a King not always personal ibid.
• A League holds with a People or a lawful King, though exil'd his Kingdom, but not with an Ʋsurper page 195
• League equal or unequal page 183
• Leagues how they differ from Sponsions, ibid.
• Leagues unequal, 48, 183, 184. give no ju∣risdiction properly page 49
• In unequal Leagues Kings or People may be equal in freedom though not in dignity ibid.
• In Leagues who are superiour page 49, 50
• Leagues some require exact natural Right on∣ly: and why, 182. its breach is a matter odious page 193
• The Prince of the Leagues may be said in some things to command page 49, 50
• In Leaugues unequal, the danger whence page 51
• Leagues, unequal contracted sometimes where no War is, 184. whether to be made with men of different Religion, ibid. this proved by experience, 185, 186. some cautions page 186
• Leagues forbidden to be made with some Na∣tions: and why page 184
• Of Leagues, some favourable, some odious, some personal, some real page 195
• Leagues of Peace and society, these either for Commerce or War page 182, 183
• Whether they that are unequally Leagued have the Right of Embassages page 206
• Leagues divided page 182
• A League for a set time not by silence re∣newed page 187
• No League binds to an unjust War page 186
• No breach of League to defend the injured Party, if in other things the Peace be kept page 194
• Leagues never made but between Soveraign Princes page 181
• Leagues of Joshua with the Gibeonites, 169 he might not make a League with the Ca∣naanites: and why page 184
• In Leagues, words of Art interpreted accord∣ing to Art, 191. the stronger gives the greater power, the weaker the greater ho∣nour, 49, 50. this Article not to make War without consent, is to be understood of an offensive War only page 194
• A League made with a Free People, is real and binds though they admit of Kings, unless made with other Free Cities to defend their liberty page 195
• The Lenity of the Ancient Fathers towards them that erred in things Divine page 391
• Letter of Marque page 448
• Liberty personal recovered by Postliminy, 489. or Peace, which to be prefer'd page 419
• The Liberty of a People what it signifies, 42, 43, &c. of making War not rashly to be believed to be renounced page 193
• The Liberty of Subjects obliged by the fact of their Superiours page 447
• Liberty natural is to live where we list page 115
• Liberty the usual Cloak of Ambition page 65
• Liberty lost, to recover, no just cause of War page 407
• Liberty some left, the Conquered may secure the Conquerour page 527
• Life prefer'd before Liberty page 419
• The Lesser number to yield to the greater, not natural page 139
• Long possession, see Possession
• Lots sometimes end a War page 551
• Love of Parents toward their Children more natural, than that of Children towards Pa∣rents page 123
• A Lye strictly taken, what, 440. forbidden, 439. by some good Authors in some cases approved, 440. a wholesome lye, the jo∣cular and charitable not much blamed page 442, 443
• The form of a Lye, what, 441. whether na∣turally unlawful ibid.
• To Lye and to tell a lye, differenced by Gelli∣us page 440
• Lyes our refuge in danger, Rahabs lye page 443
• No Lye, if by an untruth spoken by me, a By∣stander be deceived page 442
• Of Lyes, the Schoolmen admit not, but they do of Equivocations page 443, 444
• A Lye to preserve life, whether lawful page 443
• To Lye to an Enemy lawful, 439, 443. to be understood of words assertory not promissory, 443, 444. yet not if bound by Oath ibid
• From Lying to abstain even to an Enemy, magnanimous page 444
• Lying to be excluded in all Contracts in a Market page 441
• To Lye in time and place fitting, the part of Stoical wisdom page 440
• Lying ill becomes a Prince, 444. fear and po∣verty make Lyars ibid.
• For Lying and Perjury, the punishment the same page 175
• It is no Lye if in an Amphibology our words agree with either sence, though misunderstood page 440