The Law of Nations. Emer de Vattel

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on board a neutral ship,

       116. Neutral property on board an enemy’s ship,

       117. Trade with a besieged town,

       118. Impartial offices of neutrals,

       119. Passage of troops through a neutral country,

       120. Passage to be asked,

       121. It may be refused for good reasons,

       122. In what case it may be forced,

       123. The fear of danger authorises a refusal,

       124. or a demand of every reasonable security,

       125. Whether always necessary to give every kind of security required,

       126. Equality to be observed towards both parties, as to the passage,

       127. No complaint lies against a neutral state for granting a passage,

       128. That state may refuse it from fear of the resentment of the opposite party,

       129. and lest her country should become the theatre of war,

       130. What is included in the grant of passage,

       131. Safety of the passage,

       132. No hostility to be committed in a neutral country,

       133. Neutral country not to afford a retreat to troops, that they may again attack their enemies,

       134. Conduct to be pursued by troops passing through a neutral country,

       135. A passage may be refused for a war evidently unjust, <xlvi>

       CHAPTER VIII Of the Rights of Nations in War,—and first, of what we have a Right to do, and what we are allowed to do, to the Enemy’s Person in a just War.

       136. General principle of the rights against an enemy in a just war,

       137. Difference between what we have a right to do, and what is barely allowed to be done with impunity between enemies,

       138. The right to weaken an enemy by every justifiable method,

       139. The right over the enemy’s person,

       140. Limits of that right:—an enemy not to be killed after ceasing to resist;

       141. A particular case, in which quarter may be refused,

       142. Reprisals,

       143. Whether a governor of a town can be punished with death for an obstinate defence,

       144. Fugitives and deserters,

       145. Women, children, the aged, and sick,

       146. Clergy, men of letters, &c.

       147. Peasants, and, in general, all who do not carry arms,

       148. The right of making prisoners of war,

       149. A prisoner of war not to be put to death,

       150. How prisoners of war are to be treated,

       151. Whether prisoners, who cannot be kept or fed, may be put to death,

       152. Whether prisoners of war may be made slaves,

       153. Exchange and ransom of prisoners,

       154. The state is bound to procure their release,

       155. Whether an enemy may lawfully be assassinated or poisoned,

       156. Whether poisoned weapons may be used in war,

       157. Whether springs may be poisoned,

       158. Disposition to be entertained towards an enemy,

       159. Tenderness for the person of a king who is in arms against us,

       CHAPTER IX Of the Right of War, with respect to Things belonging to the Enemy.

       160. Principles of the right over things belonging to the enemy,

       161. The right of seizing them,

      

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