Emer de Vattel, Les Droits des Gens
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Chap 1 (of Nations or Sovereign States)Chap 2 (General Principles of the Duties of a Nation Towards herself)Chap 3 (of the Constitution of a State, and its Duties and Rights)Chap 4 (of the Sovereign, his Obligations, and his Rights)Chap 5 (of States, Elective, Successive, Hereditary and Patrimonial)Chap 6 (Principal Objects of a Good Government; First, to Provide for Necessities)Chap 7 (of the Cultivation of the Soil)Chap 8 (of Commerce)Chap 9 (of the Care of the Public Ways; and of Tolls)Chap 10 (of Money and Exchange)Chap 11 (Second Object of a Good Government, to Procure True Happiness)Chap 12 (of Piety and Religion)Chap 13 (of Justice and Polity)Chap 14 (Third Object of a Good Government, to Fortify itself against Attacks)Chap 15 (of the Glory of a Nation)Chap 16 (Protection Sought by a Nation, and Submission to a Foreign Power)Chap 17 (how a Nation May Renounce her Allegiance to her Sovereign)Chap 18 (Establishment of a Nation in a Country)Chap 19 (of our Native Country, and Several Things that Relate to it)Chap 20 (Public, Common, and Private Property)Chap 21 (of the Alienation of the Public Property, or the Domain)Chap 22 (of Rivers, Streams, and Lakes)Chap 23 (of the Sea)
Chap 1 (of the Common Duties of a Nation Towards other States)Chap 2 (of the Mutual Commerce between Nations)Chap 3 (of the Dignity and Equality of Nations, of Titles, and Honour)Chap 4 (of the Right to Security, and the Independence of Nations)Chap 5 (of the Observance of Justice between Nations)Chap 6 (of the Concern a Nation May have in the Actions of her Citizens)Chap 7 (Effects of the Domain, between Nations)Chap 8 (Rules Respecting Foreigners)Chap 9 (Rights Retained after the Introduction of Domain and Property)Chap 10 (how a Nation is to Use her Right of Domain)Chap 11 (of Usucaption and Prescription between Nations)Chap 12 (of Treaties of Alliance and other Public Treaties)Chap 13 (of the Dissolution and Renewal of Treaties)Chap 14 (of Conventions between the Sovereign and Private Persons)Chap 15 (of the Faith of Treaties)Chap 16 (of Securities Given for the Observance of Treaties)Chap 17 (of the Interpretation of Treaties)Chap 18 (of the Mode of Terminating Disputes between Nations)
Chap 1 (of War, its Different Kinds, and the Right of Making War)Chap 2 (of the Instruments of War, the Raising of Troops, Etc)Chap 3 (of the just Causes of War)Chap 4 (of the Declaration of War, and of War in Due Form)Chap 5 (of the Enemy, and of Things Belonging to the Enemy)Chap 6 (of the Enemy's Allies, Associations, Auxiliaries and Subsidies)Chap 7 (of Neutrality, and the Passage of Troops through a Neutral Country)Chap 8 (of the Rights of Nations in War, what we have a Right to do)Chap 9 (of the Right of War, with Respect to Things Belonging to the Enemy)Chap 10 (of Faith between Enemies, of Stratagems, Artifices in War, and Spies)Chap 11 (of the Sovereign who Wages an Unjust War)Chap 12 (of the Voluntary Law of Nations, as it Regards Regular Warfare)Chap 13 (of Acquisitions by War, and Particularly of Conquests)Chap 14 (of the Right of Postliminium)Chap 15 (of the Right of Private Persons in War)Chap 16 (of Various Conventions Made during the Course of the War)Chap 17 (of Safe Conducts and Passports, and Questions of Ransom)Chap 18 (of Civil War)
Chap 1 (of Peace, and the Obligation to Cultivate it)Chap 2 (Treaties of Peace)Chap 3 (of the Execution of the Treaty of Peace)Chap 4 (of the Observance and Breach of the Treaty of Peace)Chap 5 (of the Right of Embassy, of Sending and Receiving Public Ministers)Chap 6 (of the Several Orders of Public Ministers, and the Honours Due)Chap 7 (of the Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of Ambassadors, Etc)Chap 8 (of the Judge of Ambassadors in Civil Cases)Chap 9 (of the Ambassador's House and Domestics)
