As mentioned in the section for Wheaton, at the beginning, the original text was based on both of natural law and positive law, but enlargement to strengthen the nature of positive law side was made in its third edition.
ホイートンの箇所で述べたように原著は元々自然法と実定法双方に軸足をおいた著作であったが、第三版において実定法的性格を強める増訂が為されている。