Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- 18 Legal Scholastic and Humanist Influences on Grotius
- 19 Grotius’ Introduction to Hollandic Jurisprudence
- 20 The Laws of War- and Peace-Making
- 21 The Law of Armed Conflict
- 22 The Freedom of the Seas
- 23 Property
- 24 The Law of Contract and Treaties
- 25 Punishment and Crime
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
25 - Punishment and Crime
from Part IV - Grotius as a Legal Scholar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Cambridge Companions to Law
- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Short Titles of Works by Grotius
- Editions and Translations of Grotius’ Work
- Introduction
- Part I Grotius in Context
- Part II Concepts
- Part III Grotius as a Man of Letters, Theologian and Political Writer
- Part IV Grotius as a Legal Scholar
- 18 Legal Scholastic and Humanist Influences on Grotius
- 19 Grotius’ Introduction to Hollandic Jurisprudence
- 20 The Laws of War- and Peace-Making
- 21 The Law of Armed Conflict
- 22 The Freedom of the Seas
- 23 Property
- 24 The Law of Contract and Treaties
- 25 Punishment and Crime
- Part V The Reception of Grotius
- Index
- References
Summary
Contracts must be regulated by equality, which stipulates that the party who has obtained less because of an inequality shall have a right of action. Grotius proposed a broad concept of equality, which concerns various elements: acts preceding the conclusion of a contract, the principal act, and the subject matter of the agreement. Grotius’s teachings on the law of treaties reflect those illustrated for promises and contracts, but also encompass some differences. For example, Grotius does not condemn treaties with unequal terms.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 535 - 556Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Straumann, B., ‘The right to punish as a just cause of war in Hugo Grotius’ natural law’, Studies in the History of Ethics (2006), www.historyofethics.org/022006/022006Straumann.shtml.Google Scholar
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