 The scope limitation for sovereignty authority is described more clearly in Pufendorf’s natural law theory. Like Grotius, whose political philosophy he was attempting to defend, Pufendorf (DMC) believed in natural law and also laws derived in more conventional ways—such as civil laws, or laws between nations. He builds on Grotius’ account in two ways. First, Pufendorf rightly pointed out that the ocean could be subject to the exercise of jurisdiction. Second, and more significantly, his account provides the conceptual resources to recognize not only collective title, but it incorporates the idea of fair rules and fair terms in his account of the establishment of property regimes. For Pufendorf, the state of nature was a state of social living, and our claims to resources of the commons were rights held in a negative community in the sense that the natural world was equally open to everyone, but that, in order to appropriate land or property, one needed the consent of other co-owners. Pufendorf did not specify what kind of consent ought to count. However, he suggests that it would take the form of collective property or property held by communities, and that, from this, individual claims could be derived. Cara Nine (2019) has argued that his account has the conceptual resources to explain the limits of the state’s territorial domain in a non-arbitrary way, because he limits both individual and collective title by invoking moral principles such as non-domination and need.