The Rights of War and Peace

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The discussion of wartime obligations distinguishes civil laws, which govern in peace, from perpetual laws that spring from human nature and continue during conflict. The account separates Natural Law, grounded in rational nature, from Conventional Law, arising from agreements and compacts, and says institutions change while Natural Law remains the same. The treatment of the Law of Nations recognises a body of doctrine based on consent rather than deductions from general principles of justice alone.

The discussion of funeral honours reports praise for people who granted those honours to others who would themselves have refused them. The chapter On Tacit Faith says public, private and mixed conventions admit tacit consent allowed by custom.

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Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius was a Dutch jurist, diplomat, historian, and classical scholar whose work ranged across international law, theology, poetry, and the history of the Dutch revolt. The history of the Spanish invasion, and the armada styled invincible is an English translation drawn from his Annales et Historiae de Rebus Belgicis and published in 1804.