The Law of Nations. Emer de Vattel

Whether it be lawful to take possession of part of a country inhabited only by a few wandering tribes,

210. Colonies, <xxix>

CHAPTER XIX Of our Native Country, and various Matters relating to it.

211. What is our country,

212. Citizens and natives,

213. Inhabitants,

214. Naturalisation,

215. Citizens’ children born in a foreign country,

216. Children born at sea,

217. Children born in the armies of the state, or in the house of its minister at a foreign court,

218. Settlement,

219. Vagrants,

220. Whether a person may quit his country,

221. How a person may absent himself for a time,

222. Variation of the political laws in that respect:—they must be obeyed,

223. Cases in which a citizen has a right to quit his country,

224. Emigrants,

225. Sources of their right,

226. If the sovereign infringes their right, he injures them,

227. Supplicants,

228. Exile and banishment,

229. The exile and the banished man have a right to live somewhere,

230. Nature of that right,

231. Duty of nations towards them,

232. A nation cannot punish them for faults committed out of her territories,

233. except such as affect the common safety of mankind,

CHAPTER XX Public, Common, and Private Property.

234. What the Romans called res communes,

235. Aggregate wealth of a nation, and its divisions,

236. Two modes of acquiring public property,

237. The income of the public property is naturally at the sovereign’s disposal,

238. The nation may grant him the use and property of her common possessions,

239. or allow him the domain, and reserve to herself the use of them,

240. Taxes,

241. The nation may reserve to herself the right of imposing them,

       242. Sovereign possessing that power,

       243. Duties of the prince with respect to taxes,

       244. Eminent domain annexed to the sovereignty, <xxx>

       245. Dominion over public property,

       246. The sovereign may make laws respecting the use of things possessed in common,

       247. Alienation of the property of a corporation,

       248. Use of common property,

       249. How each member is to enjoy it,

       250. Right of anticipation in the use of it,

       251. The same right in another case,

       252. Preservation and repairs of common possessions,

       253. Duty and right of the sovereign in that respect,

       254. Private property,

       255. The sovereign may subject it to regulations of police,

       256. Inheritances,

       CHAPTER XXI Of the Alienation of the public Property, or the Domain, and that of a Part of the State.

       257.