426, 427, 430 Sootragum Satputty v. Sabrita T Texas v. White, 188 n. Thompson v. Stewart, 61 n. Twee Gebroeders, The, 36, 227, U United States v. Smith, 489 n. V Villato, Francis, Trial of, 504 W Wall, Governor, Trial of, 457 n. Tandy, James Napper, Trial of, Williams, Isaac, Trial of, 504 521 Winslow's Case, 548 P. 3, note (c), line 2, for lib. xi. ch. 8, s. 2, read lib. ii. c. viii. s. 2. P. 26, note (o) for Instit. de Legit. Aguat. 1. iii., read Instit. lib. i. t. xv. 3. COMMENTARIES UPON INTERNATIONAL LAW. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. I. THE great community, the universal commonwealth of the world, comprehends a variety of individual members, manifesting their independent national existence through the medium of an organised government, and called by the name of States (a). II. States in their corporate capacity, like the individuals which compose them, are (subject to certain limitations) free moral agents, capable of rights, and liable to obligations (b). (a) "Communitas, quæ genus humanum aut populos complures inter se colligat "—" jura magnæ universitatis."-Grotius, de Jure Belli et Pacis, Proleg. 17, 23. Sociétés, qui forment les nations-membres principaux de ce grand corps qui renferme tous les hommes."-D'Aguesseau, 1. 444; Institution du Droit public, v., vi. "Comme donc le genre humaine compose une société universelle divisée en diverses nations, qui ont leurs gouverneurs séparés," &c.-Domat, Traité des Lois, ch. 11, s. 39. (b) Dig. lib. v. tit. i. 76: “(De inoff. testamento) populum eundem hoc tempore putari, qui abhinc centum annis fuisset, cum ex illis nemo nunc viveret." Dig. lib. vii. tit. i. 56: "(De usufructu) an ususfructûs nomine actio municipibus dari debeat, quæsitum est, periculum enim esse videbatur |