The freedom of the seas
by Hugo Grotius
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About This Book
"The Free Sea was originally published in order to buttress Dutch claims of access to the lucrative markets of the East Indies. It had been composed as the twelfth chapter of a larger work, De Jure Praedae (On the Law of Prize and Booty), which Grotius had written to defend the Dutch East India Company's capture in 1603 of a rich Portuguese merchant ship in the Straits of Singapore. The wider applicability of Grotius's arguments regarding the individual and collective rights to appropriate natural resources and to trade freely would ensure that his work transcended its immediate legal and dipl...
Chapters (132)
- THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
- CAPITA DISSERTATIONIS HVGONIS GROTII DE MARE LIBERO
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- AD PRINCIPES POPVLOSQVE LIBEROS ORBIS CHRISTIANI
- TO THE RULERS AND TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT NATIONS OF CHRISTENDOM
- CAPVT I
- CHAPTER I
- CAPUT II
- CHAPTER II
- CAPVT III
- CHAPTER III
- CAPVT IV
- CHAPTER IV
- CAPUT V
- CHAPTER V
- CAPVT VI
- CHAPTER VI
- CAPVT VII
- CHAPTER VII
- CAPVT VIII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CAPVT IX
- CHAPTER IX
- CAPVT X
- CHAPTER X
- CAPVT XI
- CHAPTER XI
- CAPVT XII
- CHAPTER XII
- CAPVT XIII
- CHAPTER XIII
- (APPENDIX)
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
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- FOOTNOTES:
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