Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty

by Hugo Grotius, Martine Julia van Ittersum (Editor)

Overview

This Liberty Fund edition of Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty is based on the one prepared by Gwladys L. Williams and Walter H. Zeydel for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It combines the original text and new material.

Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) was a lawyer and legal theorist, diplomat and political philosopher, ecumenical activist and theologian.

Martine Julia van Ittersum is a Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865974746
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/15/2006
Series:	Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics
Pages:	660
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.95(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

Note on the Text xxiii

Acknowledgments xxix

COMMENTARY ON THE LAW OF PRIZE AND BOOTY I

Appendixes to the Liberty Fund Edition
I. Documents Listed by Grotius at the End of the Manuscript 503
II. Archival Documents Relating to De Jure Praedae 528

Bibliography for Introduction and Notes 557
Suggestions for Further Reading 561

Indexes
Carnegie Edition Index of Authors Cited 565
Carnegie Edition Subject Index 587

Editorial Reviews

A big book still in print after four centuries, now edited and introduced (and in a translation by Gwladys Williams & Walter Zeydel of 1950) by Martine Julia van Ittersum (Dundee) is Hugo Grotius' Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty (Liberty Fund), 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Indianapolis, IN 46250. 2006, US $20.00 in hardcover and only US $12.00 for the 632-page paperback). Written to justify the capture by the Dutch of a Portuguese merchant ship in the Strait of Singapore, the book eventually entered the approved corpus of international mercantile law regarding the expanding empires of European commerce. Grotius' Latin manuscript was not transcribed and published until H. G. Hamaker brought it out in 1868 after it had been found among Grotius papers sold at auction in 1864. Now it appears with some newly discovered material in appendices.

-Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, LXIX: 3 (2007)

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