Law of nations and natural law
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law of nations · Natural Law · ius gentium · law of nature · natural law · the Law of Nations
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1 expressionNatural Law and the Law of Nations2 mentions
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) (English) · The Rights of War and Peace (English)
In the primitive law of nations, which is sometimes called Natural Law, and which the poets sometimes portray as having existed in a Golden Age, and sometimes in the reign of Saturn or of Justice, there was no particular right.
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The doctrine of a universal natural law and law of nations binding all peoples equally.
Deum quippe esse monstrabant conditorem rectoremque universi, imprimis autem humanae naturae parentem, quam ideo, non uti cetera animantia, in species diversas, variaque discrimina segregasset, sed unius esse generis, una etiam appellatione voluisset contineri, dedisset insuper originem eandem, similem membrorum compagem, vultus inter se obversos, sermonem quoque et alia communicandi instrumenta, …
Fundamentum struemus hanc iuris gentium, quod primarium vocant regulam certissimam, cuius perspicua atque immutabilis est ratio;
Error est non minus vetus quam pestilens, quo multi mortales, ii autem maxime qui plurimum vi atque opibus valent, persuadent sibi, aut, quod verius puto, persuadere conantur, iustum atque iniustum non suapte natura, sed hominum inani quadam opinione atque consuetudine distingui.
The Rights of War and Peace
The natural and international legal standards Grotius uses to assess coercion, punishment, and sanctuary.
If the act, of which refugees and suppliants are accused, is not prohibited by the law of nature or of nations, the matter must be decided by the civil law of the country, from which they come.
But to obstruct the teachers of Christianity by pains and penalties is undoubtedly contrary to natural law and reason:
Nor do the so much talked of rights of suppliants, and the inviolable nature of asylums at all weaken the argument that has been advanced.