Persons or effects of enemies not to be seized during the truce,
256. Right of postliminium during the truce,
257. Intercourse allowed during a truce,
258. Persons detained by unsurmountable obstacles after the expiration of the truce,
259. Particular conditions added to truces,
260. At the expiration of the truce, the war recommences without any new declaration,
261. Capitulations; and by whom they may be concluded, <l>
262. Clauses contained in them,
263. Observance of capitulations, and its utility,
264. Promises made to the enemy by individuals,
CHAPTER XVII Of Safe-conducts and Passports,—with Questions on the Ransom of Prisoners of War.
265. Nature of safe-conducts and passports,
266. From what authority they emanate,
267. Not transferable from one person to another,
268. Extent of the promised security,
269. How to judge of the right derived from a safe-conduct,
270. Whether it includes baggage and domestics,
271. Safe-conduct granted to the father does not include his family,
272. Safe-conduct given in general to any one and his retinue,
273. Term of the safe-conduct,
274. A person unavoidably detained beyond the term,
275. The safe-conduct does not expire at the death of him who gave it,
277. Safe-conduct, with the clause, “for such time as we shall “think fit,”
278. Conventions relating to the ransom of prisoners,
279. The right of demanding a ransom may be transferred,
280. What may annul the convention made for the rate of the ransom,
281. A prisoner dying before payment of ransom,
282. Prisoner released on condition of procuring the release of another,
283. Prisoner retaken before he has paid his former ransom,
284. Prisoner rescued before he has received his liberty,
285. Whether the things which a prisoner has found means to conceal, belong to him,
286. Hostage given for the release of a prisoner,
287. Foundation of the sovereign’s rights against the rebels,
289. Popular commotion, insurrection, sedition,
290. How the sovereign is to suppress them,
291. He is bound to perform the promises he has made to the rebels,
293. A civil war produces two independent parties,
294. They are to observe the common laws of war,
295. The effects of civil war distinguished according to cases,
296. Conduct to be pursued by foreign nations, <li>
BOOK IV Of the Restoration of Peace; and of Embassies.
CHAPTER I Of Peace, and the Obligation to cultivate it.
2. Obligation of cultivating it,
3. The sovereign’s obligation in that respect,
