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Home - LONANG Library - Hugo Grotius - Law of War and Peace
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BOOK 3, CHAPTER 22On the Good Faith of Subordinate Powers in WarI. The kinds of military leadersII. How far an agreement made by military leaders is binding on the supreme authorityIII. How far such an agreement furnishes occasion for an obligationIV. What, if anything, has been done contrary to instructions? Herein distinctions are presentedV. Whether in such a case the other party will be under obligationVI. What generals or magistrates are able to do with regard to those of lower rank, or on behalf of themVII. Generals do not have the power to make peaceVIII. Whether generals may make a truce; herein a distinctionIX. What security of persons, and what property, can be given by generalsX. Such agreements should be interpreted narrowly; and whyXI. How a surrender accepted by a general is to be interpretedXII. How to understand the proviso, 'if the king or the people has approved.'
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