Servitude
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
servitude · slavery
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The legal concept of an encumbrance on property, argued to be inapplicable to the sea.
Upon being asked whether the owner of two maritime estates could on selling either of them impose on it such a servitude as the prohibition of fishing in a particular part of the sea, he replied that the thing in question, evidently the sea, could not be subjected to a servitude, because it was by nature open to all persons;
Wherefore subjects, for whom a state or a ruler is by common consent competent to make laws, will perhaps be compelled to bear such charges, but so far as other persons are concerned the right of fishing ought everywhere to be exempt from tolls, lest a servitude be imposed upon the sea, which is not susceptible to a servitude.
The Rights of War and Peace
The condition of servitude, used analogically to explain voluntary and natural political subjection.
From the Jewish, as well as the Roman Law, it appears that any one might engage himself in private servitude to whom he pleased.
Aristotle, in describing the requisites, which fit men for servitude, says, that “those men, whose powers arechiefly confined to the body, and whose principal excellence consists in affording bodily service, are naturally slaves, because it is their interest to be so.