Excerpt from Commentaries Upon International Law, Vol. 1 The necessity of mutual intercourse is laid in the nature of States, as it is of Individuals, by God, who willed the State and created the Indi vidual. The intercourse of Nations, therefore, gives rise to International Rights and Duties, and these require an International Law for their regu lation and enforcement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.