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Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty - Grotius, Hugo, and Ittersum, Martine Julia Van (Editor)
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The history of "Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty "is complex. When Grotius's personal papers were auctioned in The Hague in 1864, Dutch scholars discovered that his famous Mare Liberum was just one chapter in a manuscript of 163 folios, written in justification of Jacob van Heemskerck's capture of the Santa Catarina, a Portuguese merchantman, in the Straits of Singapore in February 1603. A prominent Dutch historian of the nineteenth century, Robert Fruin, persuaded the classical scholar H. G. Hamaker to transcribe ...

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Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty 2006, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, IN

ISBN-13: 9780865974753

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Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty 2006, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, IN

ISBN-13: 9780865974746

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