Bellum

Lat. War. Jus belli; the law of war.

Belle parta cedant relpablicM

Things acquired in war belong, or go to the State. 1 Kent's Com. 101.

Sir W. Scott, (The Elsebe,) 6 Bob, Adm. R, 155, 163. 1 Gallison, 558.

The right to all captures vests primarily in the sovereign. A fundamental maxim of public law. The trial by single combat, or battel; the duellum.

Cowell,