- Advertisement, Prefaces
- Preliminaries
BOOK 1: Of Nations Considered in Themselves
- 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 Properly, or the Domain
- Chap. 22: Of Rivers, Streams, and Lakes
- Chap. 23: Of the Sea
BOOK 2: Of a Nation Considered in Her Relation to Other States
- 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 Deputes Between Nations
BOOK 3: Of War
- 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
BOOK 4: Of The Restoration of Peace: And of Embassies
- 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
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