Full Idea
It is permissible for one who is waging a just war to take possession of a place situated in a country free from hostilities.
Gist of Idea
It is permissible in a just cause to capture a place in neutral territory
Source
Hugo Grotius (On the Law of War and Peace [1625], II.ii.x), quoted by Michael Walzer - Just and Unjust Wars 15 n
Book Reference
Walzer,Michael: 'Just and Unjust Wars' [Penguin 1984], p.246
A Reaction
This rejects Combatant Equality, allowing the just to do what is morally forbidden to the unjust.