de Vattel: How a Nation Is to Use Her Right of Domain with Respect to the Innocent Use of Things

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

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How a Nation Is to Use Her Right of Domain, in Order to Discharge Her Duties Towards Other Nations, with Respect to the Innocent Use of Things§ 131. General duty of the proprietor.§ 132. Innocent passage.§ 133. Sureties may be required.§ 134. Passage of merchandise.§ 135. Residence in the country.§ 136. How we are to act towards foreigners who desire a perpetual residence.§ 137. Right accruing§ 138. A right granted as a favor.§ 139. The nation ought to be courteous.
   1. Stettler, vol. i. p. 114. Tschudi, vol ii. pp. 27, 28.
   2. Vopiscus, Prob. c. sviii. — Ammian. Marcell. lib. xxxi. — Socrat. Hist. Eccles. lib. iv. c. 28.
   3. Cæsar replied to the Tenchtheri and Usipetes, who wanted to retain possession of the territories they had seized, that it was not just for them to invade the territories of others, since they had not been able to defend their own. — Neque verum esse, qui suos fines tueri non potuerint, alienos occupare. De Bello Gallico, lib. iv, cap. vi.