href="#ulink_c4e4a9f7-b5a4-5d50-99aa-4d62f082cdd5">CHAPTER XVII How a Nation may separate herself from the State of which she is a Member, and renounce her Allegiance to her Sovereign when she is not protected.
200. Difference between the present case and those in the preceding chapter,
201. Duty of the members of a state, or subjects of a prince, who are in danger,
202. Their right when they are abandoned,
CHAPTER XVIII Establishment of a Nation in a Country.
203. Possession of a country by a nation,
204. Her right over the part in her possession,
205. Acquisition of the sovereignty in a vacant country,
206. Another manner of acquiring the empire in a free country,
207. How a nation acquires the property of a desert country,
208. A question on this subject,
CHAPTER XIX Of our Native Country, and various Matters relating to it.
215. Citizens’ children born in a foreign country,
217. Children born in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court,
220. Whether a person may quit his country,
221. How a person may absent himself for a time,
222. Variation of the political laws in that respect:—they must be obeyed,
223. Cases in which a citizen has a right to quit his country,
226. If the sovereign infringes their right, he injures them,
229. The exile and the banished man have a right to live somewhere,
231. Duty of nations towards them,
232. A nation cannot punish them for faults committed out of her territories,
233. except such as affect the common safety of mankind,
CHAPTER XX Public, Common, and Private Property.
234. What the Romans called res communes,
235. Aggregate wealth of a nation, and its divisions,
236. Two modes of acquiring public property,
237. The income of the public property is naturally at the sovereign’s disposal,
238. The nation may grant him the use and property of her common possessions,
239. or allow him the domain, and reserve to herself the use of them,
241. The nation may reserve to herself the right of imposing them,
