The Rights of War and Peace: In Three Volumes

Index III and Last

1675 index iii and last Of all the CONTENTS of this WORK. The Letters and Figures are used here, as in the first Index. A Abandoning: When it may be justly presumed that any Thing is abandoned, II. 4. 4, 5. Abdication: Whether the Abdication of a Crown makes the King’s Title void, I. 4. 9. And whether if it can be a Prejudice to his Successors, II. 7. 26. What the Greeks understood by it, when they spoke of a Father’s abdicatinghisChildren , ib. 7. 7. Abraham (the Patriarch): Whether he didamissin callingSarah hisSister,III. 1. 7. If there was not more than a simple Ambiguity, in what he said to his Servants , when he went to sacrifice Isaac, ib. S. 10. N. 2. Upon what Account he gave the Tenth of the Spoils of the five Kings, ib. 6. 1. He did not scruple to take up Arms in defence of Persons of a different Religion, II. 15. 9. n. 6. A Kind of Testament he designed to make, ib. 6. 14. n. 14. Absents: Their Right devolves to those who are present, II. 5. 20. Regard sometimes had to the absent, in the Distribution of Spoils, III. 6. 7. n. 5. Acquitting: In case of a Doubt the Judge ought to acquit, rather than condemn , II. 23. 5. n. 2. Absurdity: What Care should be taken to avoid it, in theExpositionof obscure and doubtful Expressions, II. 16. 6. None are presumed to intend Absurdities, ib. S. 26. n. 1. Acceptance: Why, and how far, it is necessary to make a Promise valid and obligatory, II. 11. 14, &c. Of Acceptance for another, ib. S. 18. How Acceptance may precede the Performance, or the Translation of Property, ib. 6. 2. n. 1. If an Agreement should be explained, according to the Words of the Acceptance, rather than the Offers of the other Party, ib. 16. 32. Acceptation: If it belongs entirely to the Civil Law, II. 4. 4. N. 5. Accessory: What the Roman Lawyers understood by it, with Respect to the Mixture of Things belonging to different Masters,II. 8.19.N. 2.Examination of their Principles upon this Subject, ib. S. 21, &c. 1676 index iii Accursius (Francis): A Character of this Lawyer’s Writings, Prelim. Disc. S. 54. N. 2. Accusing: Whether it is lawful for Christians, II. 20. 11. &c. Whether a Son may in some Cases accuse his Father, ib. 13. 4. n. 7. and N. 26. The Duty of him who has entered an unjust Accusation against another, ib. 17. 16. n. 1. Why certain Persons are appointed by Authority to accuse the Guilty, ib. 20. 15. Act: Acts purely internal cannot be the Foundation of any Right between Man and Man, II. 4. 3. But the external Signs, which are commonly used to express them, give a real Right, tho’ they are not agreeable to the inward Sentiments of the Mind, ibid. and ib. 6. 1. n. 1. What are those vicious Acts, the Turpitude whereof is perpetuated, ib. 5. 10. N. 2. How many Kinds of Acts there are, by which Men promote the Advantage of one another, ib. 12. 1, 2. Acts mixed of Contract and Law, ib. 14. 9. Acts of Equity and Strictness or Rigour of Law, Import and Use of this Distinction, ib. 16. 11. The last Acts set aside the former, when there is an Inconsistency between them, ib. S. 4. n. 1. and S. 29. n. 2. How an involuntary Act is sometimes reputed voluntary, ib. 17. 18. Whether every vicious Act can be punished by Men, ib. 20. 18. Actions: Whether Actions are in their Nature Signs and Expressions of our Thoughts, III. 1. 8. Action, (Plea): What is meant by an indirect Action, (Actio Utilis) in the Roman Law, II. 10. 2. n. 2. Ground of an Action against the Owner of a Ship, on Account of the Master, (Actio Exercitatoria); and against a Merchant, on Account of his Factors, (Institutoria) II. 11. 13. n. 1. Why certain respective Actions of the Parties are not granted at the same Time, III. 19. 16. Accomplice: How one becomes Accomplice of a Crime, ib. 21. 1. Acquisition: What is meantby aprimitive Acquisition,andhowitisobtained, II. 3. 1. May be obtained for another, by any Freeman, III. 6. 9. Admiralty: What is to be understood by it, II. 12. 4. Adoption: What it is, II. 5. 26. n. 3. If it gives a Right of Succession,abintestat, ib...