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Home - LONANG Library - Hugo Grotius - Law of War and Peace
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BOOK 3, CHAPTER 7On The Right Over Prisoners of WarI. According to the law of nations all persons captured in a war that is public become slaves.
II. Also the descendants of persons captured in war become slavesIII. What may be done to prisoners of war with impunityIV. The property of captives, even if incorporeal, belongs to their masterV. The reason why the law has thus been established.
VI. Whether it is permissible for those who have been captured to fleeVII. Whether it is permissible for those who have been captured to resist their masterVIII. The law under consideration has not always existed among all nationsIX. The law under consideration does not now exist among Christians; what has been substituted for it |
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