Part of: The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) 3 vols The Rights of War and Peace (2005 ed.) vol. 1 (Book I)
- Hugo Grotius (author)
- Jean Barbeyrac (editor)
- Richard Tuck (editor)
Grotius’s Rights of War and Peace is a classic of modern public international law which lays the foundation for a universal code of law and which strongly defends the rights of individual agents - states as well as private persons - to use their power to secure themselves and their property.
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This edition is based upon that of the eighteenth-century French editor Jean Barbeyrac and also includes the Prolegomena to the first edition of Rights of War and Peace (1625); this document has never before been translated into English and adds new dimensions to the great work.
Key Quotes
Property Rights
Now amongst the Things peculiar to Man, is his Desire of Society, that is, a certain Inclination to live with those of his own Kind, not in any Manner whatever, but peaceably, and in a Community regulated according to the best of his Understanding… This Sociability, which we have now described in…