Note 73 — Chapter II · DEVELOPMENT AND SCIENCE OF THE LAW OF NATIONS
Reading edition
See details with regard to the controversy concerning the freedom of the open sea below, §§ 248-250. Grotius's treatise "Mare liberum" is—as we know now—the twelfth chapter of the work "De jure praedae," written in 1604 but never published by Grotius; it was not printed till 1868. See below, § 250.