البحر الحر (Mare liberum)

مقدمة

Grotius published “Mare liberum” anonymously in Leiden in 1609 at the request of the Dutch East India Company. It was originally chapter 12 of a longer manuscript, written from 1604, defending the company’s seizure of the Portuguese carrack Santa Catarina; the full manuscript was discovered only in 1864 and published as “De iure praedae”. The tract argues that the sea, like the air, cannot be occupied and is therefore free to all peoples for navigation and trade, so that Portugal’s claim to a monopoly of the route to the East Indies was void. It provoked replies from England (John Selden’s “Mare clausum”, 1635) and Portugal and became a classic of the law of the sea.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• في الهنود الأمريكيين (Relectio de Indis)1539 · فرانثيسكو دي فيتوريا

جرى تناوله في

• في قانون الحرب والسلام1625 · هوغو غروتيوس

مزيد من أعمال هوغو غروتيوس

• 1625في قانون الحرب والسلام