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Title Property, piracy and punishment : Hugo Grotius on war and booty in De iure praedae : concepts and contexts / edited by Hans W. Blom.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 422 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Hugo Grotius's political and scholarly activities in the light of his correspondence / Henk J.M. Nellen -- Grotius, maritime intra-Asian trade, and the Portuguese Estado da Índia : problems, perspectives and insights from De iure praedae / Peter Borschberg -- Problems of legal systematization from De iure praedae to De iure belli ac pacis. De iure praedae Chapter II and the prolegomena of De iure belli ac pacis compared / Laurens Winkel -- Law, war, and method in the Commentary on the law of prize by Hugo Grotius / Merio Scattola -- Grotius and Stobaeus / Jon Miller -- The patristic context in early Grotius / Silke-Petra Bergjan -- Secularization in De iure praedae : from Bible criticism to international law / Mark Somos -- War, piracy and religion : Godfried Udemans' Spiritual helm (1638) / Joris van Eijnatten -- Using the work : remarks on the text of De iure praedae / Jan Waszink -- Preparing Mare liberum for the press : Hugo Grotius' rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November-December 1608 / Martine Julia van Ittersum -- 'Sequuntur dogmatica de iure praedae' law and theology in Grotius's use of sources in De iure praedae / Franco Todescan -- The VOC, corporate sovereignty and the republican sub-text of De iure praedae / Eric Wilson -- Natural rights and Roman law in Hugo Grotius's Theses LVI, De iure praedae and Defensio capitis quinti maris liberi / Benjamin Straumann -- Tuck's Grotius : De iure praedae in context / George Wright -- Beyond the law : the image of piracy in the legal writings of Hugo Grotius / Michael Kempe -- Grotius and the origin of the ruler's right to punish / Gustaaf van Nifterik.
Summary In 1604-1605, Hugo Grotius wrote "De iure praedae", a commentary on the law of booty and prize. This title features essays that discuss "De iure praedae" and its intellectual sources, exploring how Grotius as a humanist, theologian, jurist and politician proceeded in this his first exercise in the theory of natural law and rights.
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Subject Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. De jure praedae commentarius -- Congresses.
Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645. De jure praedae commentarius -- Congresses.
De jure praedae commentarius (Grotius, Hugo)
Prize law -- Congresses.
Prize law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Blom, H. W. (Hans Willem), 1947-
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Added Title Grotiana (1980)
Other Form: Print version: Property, piracy and punishment. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 (DLC) 2009003129
ISBN 9789047428589 (electronic book)
9047428587 (electronic book)
9789004175136 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
900417513X (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004175136.i-422