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The freedom of the seas

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Ralph Van Deman Magoffin translation

References are to pages of text and translation alike.

Accursius, biographical note, 51, n. †;

cited, 51.

Agamemnon, mention of, 9.

Agreements, when not binding, 35.

Air, common to all, 28;

nature of, 39.

Alciatus, A., biographical note, 10 n. 2.

Alexander, Emperor, quoted, 73.

Alexander the Great, mention of, 14, 40.

Alexander VI, Pope, reference to, 15, 45.

Alexandria, mention of, 68.

Ambrose, St., biographical note, 33 n. 5;

cited, 52, 71;

quoted, 32.

Amorites, mention of, 9.

Andocides, cited, 72 n. 1.

Angelus Aretinus, biographical note, 48 n. 2;

reference to, 48, 49, 50, 52, 55.

Apollinaris, mention of, 32.

Aquinas, Thos., biographical note, 13 n. 4;

mention of, 13, 19.

Arabians, mention of, 40, 68.

Arbitration, 6.

Archidiaconus, cited, 74 n. 5.

Aristotle, cited, 61, 63, 71;

quoted, 63.

Art of exchange, definition of, 61.

Athenaeus, reference to, 29.

Athenians, mention of, 9.

Augustine, St., cited, 71, 74;

quoted, 75;

reference to, 9.

Augustus, mention of, 12, 41.

Avienus, quoted, 23, 24.

Ayala, reference to, 16 n. 5.

Aztecs, mention of, 9.

Balbus, J. F., biographical note, 49 n. 3;

cited, 49;

mention of, 55.

Baldus de Ubaldis, biographical note, 9 n. 7;

mention of, 9, 55.

Bartolus, biographical note, 48 n. *;

cited, 48;

reference from, 19 n. 2.

Bennett, C. E., translation from, 31.

Bernhardus, St., reference from, 16 n. 3.

Boëthius, quoted, 19.

du Bois, see Silvius.

Bolognese, mention of, 9.

Butler, translation from, 73.

Cadiz, mention of, 40.

Caelius Antipater, cited, 40.

Caietanus, T. (Cajetan), biographical note, 19 n. 4;

reference to, 17, 19.

Cape of Good Hope, mention of, 40, 59.

Castrensis, A. de, biographical note, 53 n. 1;

cited, 53.

Castrensis, P. de (de Castro), biographical note, 49 n. †;

reference from, 22 n. 1.

Castro, M. C. de, letters to, 77.

Celsus, cited, 30, 31, 34.

Ceylon, mention of, 11, 12.

Charles V, Emperor, reference to, 21.

Chinese, mention of, 62, 68.

Cicero, cited, 72;

quoted, 23, 25, 27, 28, 75;

reference to, 29.

Cinus, cited, 63 n. 1.

Claudius, Emperor, mention of, 41.

Clemens Alexandrinus, cited, 73 n. 1.

Coercion, Portuguese, in case of East Indies, 68.

Columella, reference to, 32.

Comines, P. de, biographical note, 28 n. 3.

Commerce, origin of, 62.

Common ownership, definition of, 23.

Common right, 44.

Community of use, annihilation of, 62.

Connanus, F. de, biographical note, 12 n. 2.

Conscience, 3.

Contract, nature of, 35.

Cornelius Nepos, cited, 40.

Council of Spain, mention of, 20.

Council of Toledo, mention of, 19.

Covarruvias, D., biographical note, 9 n. 3.

Crown properties, in sea and river, 36.

Custom, established by privilege, 52.

Demosthenes, cited, 72;

quoted, 73.

Divine law, 1.

Donation of Pope Alexander VI, reference to, 15, 18, 45, 66.

Donellus, H. (Doneau), biographical note, 12 n. 2.

Dryden, J., translations from, 7, 8, 26.

Duarenus, biographical note, 27 n. 4.

Dutch, answer to Portuguese, 71;

East India trade to be maintained by, 72;

navigation by, 59;

reasonable claims of, 70.

East Indies, mention of, 65;

not chattels of Portuguese, 21, 60, 68;

Portuguese claim of exclusive right to trade in, 61;

Portuguese not first in, 41;

right of trade to be kept with, 72;

way is free to, 37.

Emmanuel, King of Portugal, mention of, 59.

English, mention of, 43.

Ennius, quoted, 38.

Equity, chapter on, 69.

Estius, biographical note, 9 n. 5.

Exchange, art of, defined, 61;

derivation of, 62.

Exhaustion, question of, 57.

Expediency, 1.

Faber, J., biographical note, 34 n. 2;

reference to, 34, 55.

Fachinham, N., biographical note, 50 n. 3.

Felinus, M. S., biographical note, 49 n. 2;

cited, 49.

Fishing, an ancient national right, 56;

free to all, 32, 38;

not legal to prevent, 33, 51;

revenues from, 36;

a servitude, 34.

Fleets, maintenance of, 35.

Free navigation, chapter on, 7.

Freedom of trade, basis of, 63;

chapter on, 61;

Dutch should have, 75.

French, mention of, 43;

navigation by, 59.

Gaius Caesar, mention of, 40.

Genoese, mention of, 48, 53, 54, 56, 58.

Gentilis, A., biographical note, 8 n. 2.

Goa, mention of, 79.

Gorcum, H. v., cited, 75 n. 3.

Gordianus, Fab. Claud., biographical note, 12 n. 1;

mention of, 12.

Grandpont, A. G. de., xi.

Greeks, reference to, 19.

Gregory, mention of, 19.

Gregory of Nazianzus, cited, 71.

Guicciardini, cited, 68 n. 2.

Hanno, reference to, 40.

Harris, E. I., translations from, 24, 25.

Hercules, mention of, 9.

Hermogenianus, quoted, 26.

Hesiod, quoted, 70;

reference to, 22.

Homer, cited, 62.

Horace, quoted, 12, 23, 31.

Hugo, reference from, 16 n. 3.

Hunting, an ancient national right, 56.

India, mention of, 12.

Inner sea, as distinguished from outer sea, 37.

Innocentius, reference from, 19 n. 2.

Innocent passage, 20, 43, 74.

International rights, 31.

Isernia, A., biographical note, 36 n. *.

Isocrates, cited, 72 n. 1, 2.

Israelites, mention of, 9.

James, H. R., translation from, 19.

Jason, cited, 54 n. 1.

Java, mention of, 11.

John, King of Portugal, mention of, 59.

Jowett, B., translation from, 63.

Jurisdiction, distinguished from ownership, 35.

Labeo, quoted, 31, 74.

Law of Human Society, 9.

Law of Nations, 7, 9, 28, 31, 61, 63;

right conception of, 52.

Law of Nature, 2, 5, 23;

right conception of, 52.

Law of property, 25.

Legitimate rulers, 19.

Leo, Emperor, cited, 33.

Lucullus, mention of, 32.

Mair, A. W., translation from, 70.

Malacca, mention of, 59.

Marcianus, cited, 32, 48, 49;

reference to, 33.

Martial, quoted, 32.

Martin, J. C., xii.

Megarians, mention of, 8.

Mendoza, A. H. de, mention of, 79.

Miller, W., translations from, 27, 38, 75.

Milton, quoted, 11 n. *.

Moluccas, mention of, 11.

Monopoly, question of, 71.

Morocco, mention of, 40.

Natural Law, 2, 5, 23, 53.

Navigation, Dutch, 59;

free to all, 7, 32, 38, 44, 46, 55, 56;

Portuguese, 59;

prescriptive right claimed by Portuguese, 54, 60;

protection of, 35.

Nazianzenus, see Gregory of Nazianzus.

Neratius, reference to, 28.

Nonius Marcellus, quoted, 12 n. 2.

Occupation, definition of, 25, 39, 48;

mention of, 27, 34;

not to affect common use, 30.

Oldradus (Oldrado de Ponte), biographical note, 74 n. 5.

Osorius, H., biographical note, 59 n. 1.

Outer sea, as distinguished from inner sea, 37.

Ovid, quoted, 26, 28.

Ownership, common, 26;

private, 29, 33, 62;

transition to, 24.

Panormitanus, cited, 67 n. 2.

Papal Donation, chapters on, 15, 45, 66.

Papinian, cited, 60;

quoted, 48.

Paul III, Pope, reference to, 21.

Paulus, cited, 32, 51.

Personal right, 35.

Peter, St., mention of, 16.

Philip III of Spain, letters of, 77.

Pickard-Cambridge, translation from, 73.

Pirates, treatment of, 35.

Placentinus, quoted, 34.

Plato, cited, 63.

Plautus, quoted, 29.

Pliny, cited, 12, 32, 40, 41, 62;

quoted, 7.

Plutarch, reference to, 14.

Polus Lucanus, cited, 73 n. 1.

Pomponius, cited, 30, 75.

Pomponius Mela, quoted, 40 n. 1.

Pope, The, no right in temporal matters, 45;

no authority against law of nature and of nations, 66.

Portuguese, arrogant pretensions of, 39, 40, 43, 75;

claim of exclusive right to trade, 61;

claim to ocean, 37;

desire for profits, 42, 69, 71;

mention of, 56, 65;

not first in East Indies, 41.

Prescription, acquisition by, 49, 59;

chapters on, 47, 67;

definition of, 47;

failure of, 50, 51;

immemorial time no help to, 49, 58;

reference to, 4, 52.

Pretexts for war, 18.

Private possessions, reference to, 28.

Privative right, 23.

Propertius, quoted, 73.

Property, origin of, 27.

Ptolemaeus, cited, 41.

Public opinion, 3.

Public territory, origin of, 34.

Quintilian, quoted, 25.

Revenues, on fisheries, 36.

Right of innocent passage, 20, 43, 74.

Right of navigation, not Portuguese because of Papal Donation, 45.

Rivalry, comment on, 70.

Roman Church, mention of, 19.

Sandeus, see Felinus.

Saracens, reference to, 10, 17.

Scaevola, mention of, 30.

Scott, J. B., Introductory note by, v.

Sea, The, common to all, 28, 30, 34, 37, 43, 44, 52, 55;

defined by law of nations, 22;

nature of, 31, 39;

not exhausted by use, 43, 57;

not merchandise, 34;

not Portuguese by Papal Donation, 45;

not subject to servitude, 35, 36;

sovereignty of, 53.

Seashore, common to all, 28, 30;

how to be used, 30, 34;

right of Roman people to, 31.

Seneca, cited, 63;

quoted, 8, 24, 25, 26, 27.

Shahan, Bishop, xii.

Sigonius, C., biographical note, 9 n. 2.

Silvestris, cited, 46 n. 1.

Silvius, F., biographical note, 17 n. 1;

reference from, 17.

Smith, K. F., xi.

Sovereignty, grant by reason of, 17;

matter of positive law, 20;

Papal Donation gives no right to, chapter on, 15;

a particular proprietorship, 22, 24;

by right of conquest, 18;

by right of discovery, 11;

title to, 11;

universal, 24.

Spaniards, arrogance of, 70, 71;

claim to ocean, 37, 54;

mention of, 56.

Strabo, quoted, 41.

Sylvius, see Silvius.

Tacitus, quoted, 10.

Temporal possessions, 19.

Theodoric, King, quoted, 75.

Thucydides, cited, 72 n. 1;

quoted, 27.

Title by prescription, destroyed, 50.

Tolls, 11, 36.

Torquemada, see Turre Cremata.

Trade, freedom of, 61, 63, 72;

origin of, 62;

Portuguese claim to right of, 61.

Trajan, mention of, 41.

Turre Cremata, reference from, 16 n. 3.

Ulpian, cited, 31, 33, 35, 44, 51, 63, 74;

reference to, 28, 69.

Use, definition of, 24, 27;

sea not exhausted by, 43;

things susceptible to universal, 29.

Usurpation, definition of, 52;

Portuguese worthless, 68.

Uti possidetis, 32, 73.

Varro, reference to, 32.

Vasquius, F. M. (Vasquez), biographical note, 52 n. 4;

cited, 53, 67, 68;

quoted, 52, 55, 56, 58, 70.

Venetians, mention of, 9, 43, 48, 53, 54, 56, 58.

Vergil, quoted, 7, 8, 26;

reference to, 29.

Victoria, F. de, biographical note, 9 n. 3;

reference to, 9, 13, 17, 18.

War, pretexts for, 18, 20.

Water, common to all, 28.

West Indies, claimed by Portuguese, 54.

Willoughby, W. W., xii.

World monopoly, question of, 71.

Zuarius, R., biographical note, 44 n. 3.

Notes in this chapter

Note 9 · Institutes II, 1; Digest I, 8, 4; cf. Gentilis, De jure belli I, 19; cf. Code IV, 63, 4 [Grotius refers particularly to his famous predecessNote 20 · Carlo Sigonio [(1523-1584), an Italian humanist, in his work] On the Kingdom of Italy.Note 21 · Victoria, De Indis II, n. 1-7; Covarruvias, in c. Peccatum, § 9, n. 4, ibi Quinta [Franciscus de Victoria (1480-1546), the famous Spanish ScNote 23 · Locutionum IV (on Numbers), 44; Estius, c. ult. 23, 4, 2 [Estius (?-1613) was a Dutch commentator on the Epistles of St. Paul and on the worNote 25 · Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilia III, 293 [Baldus (1327-1406) was a pupil of the great Bartolus].Note 29 · Andrea Alciati, Commentaria VII, 130; Covarruvias in c. Peccatum, p. 2 § 9; Bartolus on Code I, 11 [Alciati (1492-1550) was made Comes PalatNote 7 · Code VIII, 40, 13 [Probably Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius (468-533), a Benedictine monk, one of the Latin Fathers].Note 8 · Nonius Marcellus, On the various significations of speech, under the word ‘occupare’; cf. Connan, Commentaries on the civil law III, 3; DoneNote 21 · Summa II. II, q. 10, a. 12 [Thomas Aquinas (1227-1274), one of the most famous of the Schoolmen and Theologians, spoken of often as Aquila TNote 10 · Vasquius, Controversiae illustres, c. 21; Torquemada II, c. 113; Hugo on Dist. XCVI, C. VI; St. Bernard, Admonitory epistle to Pope Eugene INote 12 · Victoria, De Indis I, n. 28, 30; Covarruvias on I Corinthians V, at the end; Thomas Aquinas, Summa II. II, q. 12, a. 2; Ayala, De Jure I, 2,Note 14 · Thomas Aquinas, Summa II. II, q. 66, a. 8; Silvius, De infidelibus § 7; Innocent on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, III, 34, 8; Victoria, Note 8 · Thomas Aquinas, Summa II. II, q. 10, a. 8; Dist. XLV, C. V, C. III; Innocent, see note 1, page 17; Bartolus on Code I, 11, 1; Covarruvias inNote 10 · On Thomas Aquinas, Summa II. II, q. 4, 66, a. 8 [Thomas de Cajetan (1469-1534), an Italian cardinal, wrote voluminous commentaries on ThomasNote 1 · Paul de Castro on Digest I, 1, 5; Dist. I, C. VII.Note 41 · Duaren [a French humanist (1509-1559)], on Digest I, 8.Note 51 · Digest XLI, 1, 14; Comines, Memoirs III, 2; Donellus IV, 2; Digest XLI, 3, 49. [Philippe de Comines (1445-1509), a French historian, and oneNote 91 · Hexameron V, 10, 27 [St. Ambrose (c. 333-397), Bishop of Milan, is meant].Note 97 · On Institutes II, 1; Digest XIV, 2, 9 [Johannes Faber (c. 1570-c. 1640) was Bishop of Vienna, and Court preacher to Emperor Ferdinand. He waNote 120 · Pliny, Natural History II, 69; VI, 27; Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis III.Note 135 · Baldus on Digest I, 8, 3; Zuarius, Consilia duo de usu maris I, 3, 28, L. 10 and 12. [Rodericus Zuarius, Consilia published in 1621].Note 3 · Silvestris, In verbo Papa. n. 16.Note 8 · Consilia 286 [Angelus Aretinus a Gambellionibus (?-1445), a voluminous commentator on the Digest and the Institutes].Note 15 · On the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, II, 26, 11 [Felinus Maria Sandeus (c. 1427-1503), Bishop of Lucca].Note 16 · De praescriptionibus IV, 5, q. 6, n. 8 [Johannes Franciscus Balbus, a priest and jurisconsult at Muentz-hof].Note 22 · Fachinham VIII, c. 26 and c. 33; Duaren, De praescriptionibus, parte 2, § 2, n. 8; § 8, n. 5 and 6, [Nicholas Fachinham (?-1407), a FranciscNote 38 · Controversiae illustres c. 89, n. 12 ff. [Ferdinand Manchaea Vasquez (1509-1566) the famous Spanish jurisconsult, who held many high honors Note 42 · De potestate legis poenalis II, 14, part 572 [Alphonse de Castro (?-1558). Theologian at Salamanca, confessor to the Emperor Charles V.].Note 46 · Digest XLI, 3, 4, 26 (27); Institutes IV, 6, 14; Bartolus and Jason on Digest XXX, 11.Note 64 · Osorius, De rebus Emmanuelis regis Lusitaniae I [Hieronymus Osorius (1506-1580) was known as the Portuguese Cicero].Note 22 · Castrensis from Cinus and others on Digest I, 1, 5.Note 2 · On Digest XLIII, 11, 2; Balbus 4, 5 pr. qu. 1; Panormitanus on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, III, 8, 10; Digest XLI, 2, 41; Covarruvias Note 6 · Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia XIX.Note 1 · Thucydides, Isocrates, Andocides.Note 2 · Isocrates, Archidamos 51 [Grotius probably quoted here from memory].Note 8 · Polus Lucanus apud Stobaeum, De iustitia; Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromateis; Augustine, City of God IV, 15.Note 20 · Digest XLIII, 8, 2; XLVII, 10, 13 and 24; Silvestris, on the word ‘restitutio’; Oldradus and Archidiaconus on Digest XLVIII, 12, 2, and XLVINote 26 · Digest XLI, 1, 50; Heinrich von Gorcum, De bello justo 9.
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