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146. Clergy, men of letters, &c.
147. Peasants, and, in general, all who do not carry arms,
148. The right of making prisoners of war,
149. A prisoner of war not to be put to death,
150. How prisoners of war are to be treated,
151. Whether prisoners, who cannot be kept or fed, may be put to death,
152. Whether prisoners of war may be made slaves,
153. Exchange and ransom of prisoners,
154. The state is bound to procure their release,
155. Whether an enemy may lawfully be assassinated or poisoned,
156. Whether poisoned weapons may be used in war,
157. Whether springs may be poisoned,
158. Disposition to be entertained towards an enemy,
159. Tenderness for the person of a king who is in arms against us,
CHAPTER IX Of the Right of War, with respect to Things belonging to the Enemy.
160. Principles of the right over things belonging to the enemy,
161. The right of seizing them,
162. What is taken from the enemy by way of penalty,
163. What is with-held from him, in order to oblige him to give just satisfaction,
168. What things are to be spared,
170. Demolition of fortresses,
172. General rule of moderation, respecting the evil which may be done to an enemy,
173. Rule of the voluntary law of nations on the same subject,
174. Faith to be sacred between enemies,
175. What treaties are to be observed between enemies,
176. On what occasions they may be broken,
178. Stratagems and artifices in war,
180. Clandestine seduction of the enemy’s people,
181. Whether the offers of a traitor may be accepted,
CHAPTER XI Of the Sovereign who wages an unjust War.
183. An unjust war gives no right whatever,
184. Great guilt of the sovereign who undertakes it,
186. Difficulty of repairing the injury he has done,
187. Whether the nation and the military are bound to any thing,
188. Nations not rigidly to enforce the law of nature against each other,
189. Why they are bound to admit the voluntary law of nations,
190. Regular war, as to its effects, is to be accounted just on both sides,
191. Whatever is permitted to one party, is so to the other,
192. The voluntary law gives no more than impunity to him who wages an unjust war, <xlviii>
CHAPTER XIII Of Acquisitions by War, and particularly of Conquests.
193. War a mode of acquisition,
194. Measure of the right it gives,
195. Rules of the voluntary law of nations,
196. Acquisition of movable property,
197. Acquisition of immovables,—or conquest,