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Emmerich de Vattel
The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)
Table of Contents


  • 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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