de Vattel: Of the Observance of Justice Between Nations

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)Emmerich de Vattel

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Of the Observance of Justice Between Nations§ 63. Necessity of the observance of justice in human society.§ 64. Obligation of all nations to cultivate and observe justice.§ 65. Right of refusing to submit to injustice.§ 66. This right is a perfect one.§ 67. It produces 1. The right of defense.§ 68.2 The right of doing ourselves justice.§ 69. The right of punishing injustice.§ 70. Right of all nations against one that openly despises justice.
1. Might not his duty be extended to the execution of sentences passed in other countries according to the necessary and usual forms? — On this subject M. Van Beuningin wrote as follows to M. DeWitt, Oct. 15, 1666: "By what the courts of Holland have dec reed in the affair of one Koningh, of Rotterdam, I see they suppose that every judgment pronounced by the parliaments of France against the inhabitants of Holland in judicio contradictorio, ought to be executed on requisition made by those parliaments. Bull do not know that the tribunals of this country act in the same manner with respect to sentences passed in Holland; and, if they do not, an agreement might be made, that sentences passed on either side against subjects of the other state shall only take effect on such property as the condemned party is found to possess in the state where the sentence has been given.