Justice among Nations. A History of International Law - Stephen C. Neff

88 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) A second ser vice that governments performed for traders was to bring le- gal claims ...

Keeping Kings in Check 89 Th e reprisal pro cess was subject to close judicial scrutiny. In requesting the letter of reprisal, t ...

90 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) was some concern, too, to protect persons of very modest means from being the target ...

Keeping Kings in Check 91 Privateering was subject to some obvious abuses— chiefl y to the risk that the privateers would not co ...

chapter three New Worlds and Their Challenges O ne day in 1534, the Dominican monastery of San Esteban in Sala- manca played hos ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 93 works of Aquinas. He had connections in prominent humanist circles, be- ing a personal frien ...

94 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) Th e Islamic World Th e Islamic world presented a number of interesting contrasts to ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 95 ever, a diff erent matter. Th e Quran, the sacred book of the Islamic faith, did not itself ...

96 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) the course of his career, spent mostly in Iraq, he became one of the foremost fi gur ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 97 reason was that it was regarded, in the Islamic religion, as a praiseworthy thing to bring a ...

98 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) law had no ready answers. Much the same thing occurred in the Islamic world, as vari ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 99 by deeming ordinary, customary gift s by diplomatic missions to be tribute. Th e third pri ...

100 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) by the bughat authorities would be recognized as lawful in their area of control. A ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 101 Pagans as Sovereigns Since natural law applied to all members of the human race (and even t ...

102 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) be devised. Th at posed something of a challenge. But there was no shortage of lawy ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 103 the condition that the conquerors convert their new subjects to the Catholic faith aft er g ...

104 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) parties presented their rival cases to the Council of Constance— where it became th ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 105 Th e judgment was eventually given by a church commission in 1417. As so oft en in litigati ...

106 Law and Morality Abroad (to ca. ad 1550) treaty with Tunis. Th is was followed by a similar one with Egypt in 1297, provid ...

New Worlds and Th eir Challenges 107 key constraint operating on the papacy in its attempts to control trade with Muslim lands: ...