The Law of Nations. Emer de Vattel
61. Ministers of viceroys, <liii>
62. Ministers of the nation or of the regents during an interregnum,
63. Sovereign molesting another in the exercise of the right of embassy,
64. What is allowable in that respect in time of war,
65. The minister of a friendly power is to be received,
67. Admission of an enemy’s ministers,
68. Whether ministers may be received from or sent to a usurper,
69. Origin of the several orders of public ministers,
75. Consuls, agents, deputies, commissioners, &c.
78. Right of sending embassadors,
79. Honours due to embassadors,
CHAPTER VII Of the Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of Embassadors, and other public Ministers.
80. Respect due to public ministers,
81. Their persons sacred and inviolable,
82. Particular protection due to them,
84. What is due to them in the countries through which they pass,
85. Embassadors going to an enemy’s country,
86. Embassies between enemies,
87. Heralds, trumpeters, and drummers,
88. Ministers, trumpeters, &c. to be respected even in a civil war,
89. Sometimes they may be refused admittance,
90. Every thing which has the appearance of insult to them, must be avoided,
91. By and to whom they may be sent,
92. Independence of foreign ministers,
93. How the foreign minister is to behave,
94. How he may be punished for ordinary transgressions,
95. for faults committed against the prince,
96. Right of ordering away an embassador who is guilty, or justly suspected, <liv>
97. Right of repressing him by force, if he behaves as an enemy,
98. Embassador forming dangerous plots and conspiracies,
99. What may be done to him according to the exigency of the case,
100. Embassador attempting against the sovereign’s life,
101. Two remarkable instances respecting the immunities of public ministers,
102. Whether reprisals may be made on an embassador,
103. Agreement of nations concerning the privileges of embassadors,
104. Free exercise of religion,
105. Whether an embassador be exempted from all imposts,
106. Obligation founded on use and custom,
107. A minister whose character is not public,
108. A sovereign in a foreign country,
CHAPTER VIII Of the Judge of Embassadors in Civil Cases.
110. The embassador is exempt from the civil jurisdiction of the country where he resides,
111. How he may voluntarily subject himself to it,
112. A minister who is a subject of the state where he is employed,
113. Immunity of the minister extends to his property,
114. The exemption cannot extend to effects belonging to any trade the minister may carry on,