Of Various Conventions Made During the Course of the War§ 233. Truce and suspension of arms.§ 234. Does not terminate the war.§ 235. A truce is either partial or general.§ 236. General truce for many years.§ 237. By whom theae agreements may be concluded.§ 238. The sovereign's faith engaged in them.§ 239. When the truce§ 240. Publication of the truce.§ 241. Subjects contravening the truce.§ 242. Violation of the truce.§ 243. Stipulation of a penalty against the infractor.§ 244. Time of the truce.§ 245. Effects of a truce, what is allowed, or not, during its continuance. 1st Rule: — Each party may do at home what they have a§ 246. 2d Rule: — Not to take advantage of the truce in doing what hostilities would have prevented.247. For instance, continuing the works of a siege, or repairing breaches. § 248. or introducing succors.§ 249. Distinction of a particular case.§ 250. Retreat of an army during a suspension of hostilities.§ 251. 3d Rule: — Nothing to be attempted in contested places, but every thing to be left as it was.§ 252. Places quitted or neglected by the enemy.§ 253. Subjects inclined to revolt against their prince not to be received during the truce.§ 254. much less to be solicited to treason.§ 255. Persons or effects of enemies not to be seized during the truce.§ 256. Right of postliminium during the truce.§ 257. Intercourse allowed during a truce.§ 258. Persons detained by unsurmountable obstacles after the expiration of the truce.§ 259. Particular conditions added to truces.§ 260. At the expiration of the truce, the war is renewed without any fresh declaration.§ 261. Capitulations; and by whom they may be concluded.§ 262. Clauses contained in them.§ 263. Observance of capitulations, and its utility.§ 264. Promises made to the enemy by individuals. 1. Lib. iii. cap. xxi. § i.
2.Belli commercia Turnus. Sustulit ista prior. — Æn. x. 532.
3. Ann. lib. xiv. cap. xxxiii.
4. Tit. Liv. lib. iv. cap. 30.
5. Sully's Memoirs, by M. de l'Ecluse, vol. iv. p. 179.
6. Hist. Goth. lib. ii. cap. I. quoted by Pufendorf, book viii. chap. vii. 14.
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