De Jure Praedae
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the treatise on the law of prize
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Grotius's earlier, larger treatise on the law of prize written for the Dutch East India Company, of which Mare Liberum forms a chapter.
that the treatise on the law of prize, of which the Mare Liberum is a chapter, was in the nature of a brief;
The matter was therefore one of no little importance, and it appears that Grotius was consulted and wrote his treatise on the law of prize, which is in the nature of a brief and is, at any rate, a lawyer’s argument.
It was a secret and remained a secret until 1868 that the Mare Liberum was none other than Chapter XII of the treatise De Jure Praedae, written by Grotius in the winter of 1604–5, which first came to light in 1864 and was given to the world four years later.
The Rights of War and Peace
Grotius's early treatise, unpublished in his lifetime, containing the seeds of his masterpiece.
In the winter of 1604, there had sprung out of his legal practice the idea of a treatise entitled “De Jure Praedae,” fully written out, but never printed by its author.