Commentary on the law of prize and booty / Hugo Grotius ; edited and with an introduction by Martine Julia van Ittersum.
"Commissioned in October 1604 by the United Dutch East India Company, Hugo Grotius's Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty was intended to justify the Dutch capture in 1603 of a wealthy Portuguese merchantman, the Santa Catarina, in the Strait of Singapore. In a clever and intricate def...
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