An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nations And the Rights of Soveraigns With An
An Essay Concerning the Laws of Nations And the Rights of Soveraigns With An
Matthew Tindal
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Tho Ambaffadors of Sovereign Princes, as Grolius ob- fervcs, /. 2. #i//. 3. Have by the Law of Nations no right to exercifc Jurildiftion in their own Families 5 ipfe antent legatuf an jurifhUiorteM habcat in familiam fuMm^ C^ an Jus a])li in domo ftn pro qvibufijis to fugicntibftf, ex conccjjtone fendet ejus apuJ quern agit ^ i find juris gentium non eji. If the Ambaffadors of Sovereign Princes ^who, as he faith, fiSione qiiadam habentur pro perfinis fHtttentiuni) cannot pretend to this Power, ...there is infinitely Icfs Reafbn for a Dilpoffeffed King to Claim a Power that is fo much greater, viz, that of creftingPublick Courts of Judica- ture Therefore his granting Commiflion to Privateers, is but granting them Authority to rob whom they have a mind to, who being Judges in their own Caufe, cannot^ be fuppofed, but will judge all that comes to their Net to be Filh : and Nations have no rcafon to take notice of his Commiflion, which can have no manner of cffcd^ ^ (ince he that grants it, is no ways able to hinder them that take it^ from a^ing as they have a mind to s nor is he able to pu« niGi them, if they never (b much exceed the bounds of it \ nor can ht reflore Ships, though never fo unjuAly taken } nor is he able to give any fatisfa^on for any Injudice his Privateers (hall commit So that it is evident it is azainft the good of Mankind, and confequently the Law of Na- * tions, to allow a Prince that is reduced to a private Con- dition, a Right to grant fuch Commifloons.
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