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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International law.
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 June 2, 2024.
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BY the Fact of another, none naturally o∣bliged but the Heir page 446
Factors and Masters of Ships, how far bound page 154
Faithfulness the foundation of Justice page 151
Faith given to Subjects or Slaves, though Re∣bels, as such must be kept page 539
Faith sometimes taken for a full perswasion of the mind page 411
Of Faith whatever is not, is sin ibid.
Faith to be kept with the faithless, 173. with Pyrates and Thieves upon Oath ibid.
Faith given by Signs equivalent to Oaths, 175. its breach, though by Oath, not punishable by humane Laws, and why, 538. sometimes given by silence, 569. to be kept with Ene∣mies of all sorts, 536. even with Pyrates and Tyrants, and when, 537. Objections answered page 538
Faith not broken by a generous man, though pro∣voked, 542. to be kept with the perfidious, 540. and when not page 541
Whether private men may be compelled to keep their Faith with an Enemy page 557, 558
Faith given in War by private men to be kept, even to Pyrates, Robbers and Tyrants, though given but by Minors page 538
Fides Attica page 498
To preserve Faith, an Exhortation to Kings page 571
False speaking to some Persons better admitted than equivocations, &c. page 444
False speaking to Infants and Mad-men no Lye page 442
Falshood of Joseph, and the simulation of So∣lomon no frauds page 443
Falshood may be sometimes expedient for the common safety ibid.
False Prophets page 392
Fate, how understood in the Roman Laws page 472, 473
Father of a Family, what it signifies page 521
Fathers have as much power over their Children as over Slaves page 104
The Fathers, the more Ancient the more Autho∣ritative, Pref. xix. in them three things ob∣servable page 25, 26, &c.
A Father, when he hath power to sell his Son, 104. forfeiting his Estate, his Children may be said to suffer, but not to be punished page 400
Fear uncertain no ground of War page 71, 406
Where the Fear of loss is greater than the hopes of gain, none will adventure page 419
By the Fear of War what is gained cannot be recalled, yet from a Thief it may, if not bound by Oath ibid.
Fee-farms and Copy-hold, why first granted, 129. this done first by the Germans page 38
Ferus and Erasmus great Lovers of Peace, Pref. xii. their Opinion concerning War re∣futed ibid.
Feuds, 51. Empires may be so held from ano∣ther, it implies Obligations personal or real, but takes away no Right of Empire or Domi∣nion page 52
To Fight for Pay only, unlawful; but to receive Pay, being lawfully called to fight, lawful page 426
No Fighting against Famine page 420
Firing of Houses in War lawful page 434
Fish in Ponds, Deer in Parks held in propri∣ety page 135
Fish and Fowl, though naturally common, yet may the Owner of the Land or Water for∣bid their taking page 81
Flight from Persecution, in what Case law∣ful
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By Flight they that would save themselves in a Siege, by the Hebrew Laws, might page 508
Force to repel with force naturally lawful, 14. not all unjust, 12, 13. Force for punishment lawful page 434
By Force and Armes to be thrust out of pos∣session, what it signifies page 196
The Form of a Commonwealth, how changed, 540. of denouncing of War page 70, 71
Foreigner compared with a Proselyte, how they differ page 8
Forts of Friends weakly guarded, may to pre∣vent danger to our selves, be surprized by us page 82
Frailty humane and Fortunes instability, great Motives to clemency page 504
Frater, quasi fere alter page 417
Fraud consists in acts negative or positive, 438. whether in War lawful, 337. in its positive Acts distinguisht, if by acts into simulation, if in word into a lye page 338
A Free-pass how to be interpreted, 560. it extends to Persons, Goods and Attendants page 561
Freedom is either Personal or Civil page 42
A Free-pass dyes with him that gave it, 561. if during pleasure only, how to be understood ibid
A Free-State, if power over its Subjects page 201
A Free Nation is not subject to another page 49
French Kingdom anciently Elective, 144. their custom to avoid Civil War, 414. distinct from the Romans, 144. divided into Eastern and Western, ibid. their Succession Agnati∣cal, 130. their custom concerning Captives page 484
Friends to be assisted, if with our own incon∣venience page 424
Friendship, to what Offices it obligeth, 550. the breach whereof dissolves Peace ibid.
Fruits of any one Nation to monopolize, whe∣ther and how far lawful page 87
Fruits with the thing to be restored, 147. and what Fruits those are page 147, 148
Fruits of the Earth not to be destroyed, if the Enemy may elsewhere be supplied page 513
Fugitives exempted from Postliminy page 491
Future things being contingent, not worth Oaths page 175
Of Future things, three kinds of speaking, 151. a bare Assertion, what and of what force ibid.
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