Note 109 — TRANSLATION[107] “PERPETUAL PEACE”[108]
Mary Campbell Smith translation
On the honourable interpretation of treaties, see Vattel (op. cit., II. Ch. XVII., esp. §§ 263-296, 291). See also what he says of the validity of treaties and the necessity for holding them sacred (II. Ch. XII. §§ 157, 158: II. Ch. XV). [Tr.]