Commentary on the law of prize and booty / Hugo Grotius ; edited and with an introduction by Martine Julia van Ittersum.

Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund, 2006-

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Prize law.

Booty (International law)

War, Maritime (International law)

Commissioned in October 1604, Hugo Grotius's Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty was intended to justify the Dutch capture in 1603 of a wealthy Portuguese merchantman in the Strait of Singapore. In a clever and intricate defense of international free trade, Grotius introduced the notion of a man as a sovereign and free individual with a right to self-defense and, by extension, the right of a company of private merchants to establish a trade empire.

"The text of this edition is a reprint of the translation of De Jure Praedae by Gwladys L. Williams published in 1950 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace."

"Major legal and political works of Hugo Grotius."

Includes bibliographical references (p.557-560) and index.

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1950. (The classics of international law ; no. 22) (Publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

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xxvii, 632 p. : maps ; 24 cm