...•Vergil, Aeneis VI, 847-853. CHAPTER I By the Lato of Nations navigation is free to all persons whatsoever My intention is to demonstrate briefly and clearly...will to have Nature supply every place with all the necessaries of life, He ordains that some nations excel in one art and others in another. Why is this...

...Vergil, Aeneid VI, 847-853. CHAPTER I By the Law of Nations navigation is free to all persons whatsoever My intention is to demonstrate briefly and clearly...will to have Nature supply every place with all the necessaries of life, He ordains that some nations excel in one art and others in another. Why is this...

...spirit of which is self-evident and immutable, to wit: Eieryuaation is free to travel tojgvejry othey nation, and to trade with it. God Himself says this...will to have Nature supply every place with all the necessaries of life, He ordains that some nations excel in one art and others in another, 'r' \ ~''Wt"...

...unimpeachable axiom of the law of nations, the spirit of which is self-evident and immutable, that: "Every nation is free to travel to every other nation, and to trade with it." It is in this broad and fundamental sense that the world already possesses freedom of the seas. Those...

...having framed his case, he thus indicates to the tribunal the evidence by which it is to be supported : I shall base my argument on the following most specific...to travel to every other nation, and to trade with it.1 In the second chapter, which may be called his next point, Grotius maintains that the Portuguese...

...which it was created by nature. He also claimed as an unimpeachable axiom of the law of nations that, "Every nation is free to travel to every other nation, and to trade with it." It thus appears that the demand of land-locked peoples for an outlet to the sea is nothing new. The...

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...seemed to have propounded the doctrines which he advocates. He starts with a 'primary rule or f1rst principle, the spirit of which is self-evident and...travel to every other nation, and to trade with it.' 2 He has no difficulty in showing that nature has given to all peoples a right of access to all other...

...down, in clear and specific terms, the primary general principle upon which he founds his argument: " every nation is free to travel to every other nation, and to trade with it." On this he will stand or fall. And that principle, he claims, is nothing else than the " most specific...

...takes his stand: 1 on the following most specific and unimpeachable axiom of the Law of Nations . . . the spirit of which is self-evident and immutable,...travel to every other nation, and to trade with it. The sea does not belong in the number of those things which are in commercio. It follows from this...