Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter contain some account of the theory of Grotius, and in Chapter iv. of Maine's Ancient Law its connection with Roman Law and the so-called Law of Nature is well brought out, though more recent research seems to call for the modification of some of the views therein expressed. Chapter v. of the same book, and Chapter in. of the same author's Early History of Institutions shew how kinship was the basis of early society. In Grote's History of Greece, Part II. Chapter n., will be found a description of some of the rudimentary international usages of the Greek communities. Chapters vn. and xv. of Bryce's Holy Roman Empire shew the character of the power exercised by the Pope and the Emperor on the international affairs of mediaeval Europe. The fourth of Lawrence's Essays is an attempt to estimate the nature and extent of the influence of Grotius on his own and succeeding ages. Book I., Chapter n. of the edition of Manning's Law of Nations edited by Sheldon Amos gives a brief outline of the history of International Law, and a similar outline will be found in Chapter I. of Sir S. Baker's edition of Halleck's International Law. Wheaton's History of the Law of Nations is most valuable as a book of reference. CHAPTER III. The Subjects Of International Law. A. Subjects. The subjects of International Law do not all stand on the same footing with regard to it. Its rules govern their mutual relations in a greater or less degree, according to the circumstances of each case. They may be classified as follows: (1) Sovereign States. A State may be defined as A political community, the members of which are bound together by the tie of common subjection to some central authority, whose commands the bulk of them habitually obey. It is sovereign or independent, if its governm......