 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 pages
...superiority, in the present case, is what we usually call, though somewhat improperly, the right of conquest : a right allowed by the law of nations, if not by that of nature ; but which in reason and civil policy can mean nothing more, than that, in order to put an end to hostilities, a... | |
 | William Blackstone - 2002 - 500 pages
...which the inferior depends. The original and true ground of this fuperjority is the right of conqueft : a right allowed by the law of nations, if not by that of nature ; and founded upon a COmpRct either expreffly or tacitlv made between the conqueror and the conquered,... | |
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... a right allowed by the law of nations, if not by that of nature ; but which in reason and civil policy can mean nothing more than that, in order to put an end to hostilities, a compact is either expressly or tacitly made between the conqueror and... 
