By Emmerich De Vattel

The importance of "The legislations of countries" is living in its distillation from ordinary legislation of an apt version for foreign behavior of nation affairs that carried conviction in either the previous Regime and the hot political order of 1789-1815.

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That great man, as appears from many passages in his excellent work, had a glimpse of the truth: but as he had the task of extracting from the rude ore, as it were, and reducing into regular shape and form, a new and important subject which had been much neglected before his time, it is not surprising, that,—having his mind burthened with an immense variety of objects, and with a numberless train of quotations which * Feciales, quod fidei publicae inter populos praeerant: nam per hos fiebat ut justum conciperetur bellum (et inde desitum), et ut foedere fides pacis constitueretur.

Measure of that right, page lxiv 24. Conventional law of nations, or law of treaties, lxv 25. Customary law of nations, lxv 26. General rule respecting that law, lxv 27. Positive law of nations, lxvi 28. General maxim respecting the use of the necessary and the voluntary law, lxvi book i Of Nations considered in themselves. chapter i Of Nations or Sovereign States. 1. Of the state, and of sovereignty, 2. Authority of the body politic over the members, 3. Of the several kinds of government, 4.

Successive and hereditary states:—origin of the right of succession, 59. Other origin of that right, 60. Other sources, which still amount to the same thing, 61. A nation may change the order of the succession, 62. Renunciations, 63. The order of succession ought commonly to be observed, 64. Regents, 65. Indivisibility of sovereignties, 66. Who are to decide disputes respecting the succession to a sovereignty, 67. The right of succession not to depend on the judgment of a foreign power, 68.

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