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
24 - The Law of Contract and Treaties
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
This chapter examines several elements of Grotius’s teachings on the laws governing promises, contracts, and treaties, as expounded in his De jure belli acpacis. Grotius distinguished between promises and contracts. A promise to transfer a property right is binding when the promisor expressed his intention with an external sign, and the promisee has accepted the promise. As the binding effect is based on the free will of the promisor, the so-called vices of the will (duress, fraud etc.) can invalidate the agreement.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius , pp. 513 - 534Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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Further Reading
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Jørgensen, S., ‘Grotius’s doctrine of contract’, Scandinavian Studies in Law 13 (1969) 109–25, reprinted in Values and Law: Ideas, Principles and Rules (København, 1978), 83–101.Google Scholar
Zimmermann, R., The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition (Oxford, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar