The Law of Nations. Emer de Vattel
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199. Conditions on which a conquered town is acquired,
200. Lands of private persons,
201. Conquest of the whole state,
202. To whom the conquest belongs,
203. Whether we are to set at liberty a people whom the enemy had unjustly conquered,
CHAPTER XIV Of the Right of Postliminium.
204. Definition of the right of postliminium,
205. Foundation of that right,
207. Whether it takes effect among the allies,
208. Of no validity in neutral nations,
209. What things are recoverable by that right,
210. Of those who cannot return by the right of postliminium,
211. They enjoy that right when retaken,
212. Whether that right extends to their property alienated by the enemy,
213. Whether a nation that has been entirely subdued can enjoy the right of postliminium,
214. Right of postliminium for what is restored at the peace,
215. and for things ceded to the enemy,
216. The right of postliminium does not exist after a peace,
217. Why always in force for prisoners,
218. They are free even by escaping into a neutral country,
219. How the rights and obligations of prisoners subsist,
220. Testament of a prisoner of war,
222. Regulations established by treaty or custom, respecting postliminium,
CHAPTER XV Of the Right of private Persons in War.
223. Subjects cannot commit hostilities without the sovereign’s order,
224. That order may be general or particular,
225. Source of the necessity of such an order,
226. Why the law of nations should have adopted this rule, <xlix>
227. Precise meaning of the order,
228. What may be undertaken by private persons, presuming on the sovereign’s will,
231. What soldiers and subalterns may do,
232. Whether the state is bound to indemnify the subjects for damages sustained in war,
CHAPTER XVI Of various Conventions made during the Course of the War.
233. Truce and suspension of arms,
234. does not terminate the war,
235. A truce is either partial or general,
236. General truce for many years,
237. By whom those agreements may be concluded,
238. The sovereign’s faith engaged in them,
239. When the truce begins to be obligatory,
240. Publication of the truce,
241. Subjects contravening the truce,
243. Stipulation of a penalty against the infractor,
246. Second rule—Not to take advantage of the truce in doing what hostilities would have prevented,
247. for instance, continuing the works of a siege, or repairing breaches,
249. Distinction of a particular case,
250. Retreat of an army during a suspension of hostilities,
251. Third rule—Nothing to be attempted in contested places, but every thing to be left as it was,