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,
Successive and hereditary states:—origin of the right of succession, 59. Other origin of that right,