Balthazar Ayala
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Ayala
in the texts
Ancient Law
Jurist named alongside Grotius as instrumental in establishing the modern Law of Nations.
and at last, at a peculiarly felicitous conjuncture, Ayala and Grotius were able to obtain for it the enthusiastic assent of Europe, an assent which has been over and over again renewed in every variety of solemn engagement.
and if we closely examine the current pretexts of wars, and the avowed motives of alliances, it will be seen that, step by step with the displacement of the old principles, the views afterwards harmonized and consolidated by Ayala and Grotius were making considerable progress, though it was silent and but slow.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Jurist cited for his treatise De Jure on military and war law.
Ayala, De Jure I, 2, 29.
Ayala, De Jure I, 2, 28.
Ayala, De Jure I, 2, 29 [Best edition of Ayala is in The Classics of International Law, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2 vol.
The Rights of War and Peace
Spanish jurisconsult, author of De Jure et Officiis Belli.
Among the juristic writers of this time are Balthazar Ayala, a Spanish jurisconsult, who died in 1584, having written in a historico-judicial spirit on the subject of war in his “De Jure et Officiis Belli”;