Commentary on the law of prize and booty
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Commentary on the law of prize and booty
（Natural law and Enlightenment classics）
Liberty Fund, c2006
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- : pbk
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De jure praedae
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"Major legal and political works of Hugo Grotius"
"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"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-561) and indexes
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The history of "Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty "is complex. When Grotius's personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, Dutch scholars discovered that his famous Mare Liberum was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in justification of Jacob van Heemskerck's capture of the Santa Catarina, a Portuguese merchantman, in the Straits of Singapore in February 1603. A prominent Dutch historian of the nineteenth century, Robert Fruin, persuaded the classical scholar H. G. Hamaker to transcribe and publish it, and the Latin text was issued in 1868. This Liberty Fund edition is based on the one prepared by Gwladys L. Williams and Walter H. Zeydel for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It combines a revised text and new material, making it a highly attractive edition of a work that is difficult to obtain.
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