Spaniards
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the Spaniards · Spain · the Spanish · Spanish · the people of Spain
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Spanish crown, jurists, and colonizers, treated both as adversary in the dispute and as source of corroborating authorities.
This is not denied even by the Spanish jurists themselves.
Between us and the Spaniards the following points are in dispute:
In this controversy we appeal to those jurists among the Spanish themselves who are especially skilled both in divine and human law;
Ancient Law
Nation whose claim to sovereignty over discovered American territory is discussed.
Bentham was so struck with the confusion attending the application of the legal principle, that he went out of his way to eulogise the famous Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixth, dividing the undiscovered countries of the world between the Spaniards and the Portuguese by a line drawn one hundred leagues West of the Azores;
On Benefits
A people named alongside the Gauls as hypothetical recipients of a collective grant (immunity) from a prince.
2 says he, "if a prince shall give the citizenship to all the Gauls, immunity to the Spaniards, will individuals owe nothing on this account?