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VAT VAN NESS, WM. P. Reports of two Cases determined in the Prize Court for the New York District. 8vo. New York. 1814. VAN NESS, W. P. AND JOHN WOODWORTH. Laws of the State of New York, Revised and Passed at the 36th Session of the Legislature ; with marginal Notes and References, furnished by the Revisors. ' 2 vols. 8vo. Albany. 1813. VAN SCHAIK, PETER. The Laws of the Colony of New York, from the year 1691 to 1773, inclusive. 2 vols. fol. New York. 1773. VARDON'S Index to Public, Local, and Private Acts, from 1795 to 1839. 8vo. London. 1839. VATTEL, M. The Law of Nations, or, Principles of the Law of Nature ; applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sov- ereigns ; a new edition, with Notes. By J. Chitty. 8vo. London. 1834. 6lh American ed. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1844. . . Le Droit des Gens ; au principes de la Loi Natu- relle, appliques a la Conduite et aux Affaires des Nations et des Souveraines. 3 vol. 8vo. Paris. 1838. This edition contains Sir James Mackintosh's Discourse, translated into French by P. R. Collard ; a supplemental volume, by Ferreira, forming a complement to all the editions of Vattel, adapting the treatise to the " law of the present time; and Hoffmann's and Count d'Hauterive's notes and bibliography of the Law of Nature and Nations. Vattel was a disci- ple of Wolf, whose writings he freely copies. His work is not charac- terized by uncommon research, or depth of thought, but" by the high tone of feeling, and high standard of morality, of its author. He has done for the morality of Nations, what Paley did for the morality of individuals; both wrote, not so much for professed scholars, as to inform and en- lighten the mass of mankind." It is also wanting in method and phi- losophical precision; "his topics are loosely, and often tediously and diffusely discussed, and he is not sufficiently supported by the authority of precedents, which constitute the foundation of the positive Law of Nations." He has, also, been alternately cited in support of the most opposite opinions, but, with all his defects, he is more generally read than any other writer upon the Law of Nations, and in no country more than in ours. 1 Kent's Com. 17; Hoff. Leg. Stu. 453; Whcaton's L. of N. 182; Eden's Hist. Sketch, 9; Red. Int. L. 75; Man. L. N. 34; 6 Rev. Etran. 875. 706