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BOOK 2, CHAPTER 15On Treaties and SponsionsI. What public conventions areII. Conventions are divided into treaties, sponsions, and other agreementsIII. The difference between treaties and sponsions; to what extent sponsions are bindingIV. Rejection of the classification of treaties which Menippus madeV. The classification of treaties: first, treaties which establish the same rights as the law of nature; whence this arisesVI. Treaties which add something beyond the rights of the law of nature; what treaties are on equal termsVII. What treaties on unequal terms are; such treaties, again, are subdividedVIII. That treaties with those who are strangers to the true religion are permissible by the law of natureIX. That treaties with those who are strangers to the true religion are not, generally speaking, prohibited by the Hebraic lawX. That treaties with those who are strangers to the true religion are not prohibited by the Christian lawXI. Cautions in regard to such treatiesXII. That all Christians are under obligation to enter a league against the enemies of ChristianityXIII. To which ally help should by preference be given when several are at war, is explained, with distinctionsXIV. Whether an alliance may be considered as tacitly renewedXV. Whether the one party may be freed by the perfidy of the otherXVI. To what the signers are bound if a sponsion signed by them is rejected; also concerning the sponsion of the Caudine ForksXII. Whether a sponsion that has not been rejected is made binding through knowledge of it and through silence is set forth, with distinctions; likewise concerning the sponsion of Luctatius. |
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