Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis

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W. and J. Neal, 1832 - 596 pàgines
 

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Two maxims of natural law explained
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What actions are void
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Rights are natural or adventitious
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CHAPTER III
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In a community of goods a right to use supplies the place of property
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Property remedies those inconveniences
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A conjecture about the first author of property
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Property arose from compact
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This compact is either division or occupancy
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Mr Lockes opinion examined
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Making a thing produces no property but by occupancy
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Acquisitions are either original or derivative
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How far property ceases by dereliction or by extinction of the proprietors
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What things are still in common
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In the introduction of intestate successions a regard is had to a mans personal duty
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OF PRESCRIPTION
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No obligation to restitution where the thing has perished
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Fathers authority superior to mothers
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OF PROMISES
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The nature and obligation of a charge
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Equality in the principal act relates to knowledge of the price
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Use of money varies the price of goods
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Interest for money upon what principles to be defended
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Mixed contracts
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Gain and loss how adjusted in partnership
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Partnership mixed with insurance
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Contracts how dissolved
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Contracts of chance their nature and obligation
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Contracts with a man to do or give what we might claim are void
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Contracts void where the matter is unlawful
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Obligation how restored to void contracts
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CHAPTER XIV
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Obligation to veracity
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What concealments consistent with this obligation
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Assertory oaths confirm an implied promise
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Oath where God is not mentioned how to be understood
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What security an oath gives of the truth of what is sworn to
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Credit due to an idolaters oath
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Oaths may be taken by proxy
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No effect of an oath unless there are outward marks of an intention to swear
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Oath is void when the pact is so with which it is joined
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Oath to a robber is binding
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Effect of an oath does not extend to the jurors heirs
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What crimes are punishable by men in the equality of nature
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Mercy or clemency how exercised
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OF
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CHAPTER XX
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No man is naturally a slave
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Causes of slavery
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Limitations of despotism
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Slavery how the consequence of a just war
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Children of slaves why they follow the condition of their mother
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BOOK II
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Natural majority what and how to be reckoned
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Absent members have a right to vote by proxy
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CHAPTER II
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How men become members of civil societies
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Members of civil society not to leave it without consent of public
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How far allegiance to a civil society is due from its banished members
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CHAPTER III
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OF THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
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How a civil constitution becomes fixed as to the legislative
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National constitution a question of fact
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Constitutions not necessarily democratical
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Titles or appearances do not determine the nature of a constitution
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Right of defence where civil jurisdiction ceases of right
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Difference between jurisdiction in matters of damage and of punishment
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CHAPTER VI
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damental laws
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Interpretation what II Province of interpretation CHAPTER VII
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CHAPTER VIII
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Questions about extent of territory belong to the law of nations
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Members of a nation accountable for injuries done by it
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One nation may lawfully assist another in war
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What is lawful in war
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Property how acquired in war
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Effects of a declaration of war
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What prevents prisoners of war from being slaves
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Privileges of ambassadors how far natural
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Public compacts are either treaties or sponsions
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Compacts between nations at peace or nations at war
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Equal and unequal compacts of nations
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Compacts of the same matter with the law of nations or of different matter
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CHAPTER X
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Pàgina 424 - with at all. When some of our Saviour's disciples were displeased with the woman, who had poured a box of precious ointment on his head, which, as they urged, might have been sold for much, and given to the poor, he defends her upon this principle. Jesus said, let her alone, why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on roe:
Pàgina 22 - destroyed no part of the portion of goods that belonged to others, so long as nothing perished uselessly in his hands. Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour, or exchange his sheep for shells or wool, for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep
Pàgina 22 - But how far has he given it us? To enjoy. As much as any one can make use of, to any advantage of life, before it spoils, so much he may, by his labour, fix a property in: whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others. Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.
Pàgina 424 - for ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good; but me ye have not always. The reasonableness
Pàgina 53 - such heiresses should marry to whom they think best, only to the family of the tribe of their father. XI. Though the order of succession, which we have Order of succesbeen describing, is called a natural one, yet it is not for
Pàgina 162 - shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.—This passage is rendered in the margin—Thou shalt not take one wife to another,
Pàgina 22 - by him all his life, he invaded not the rights of others; he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his
Pàgina 22 - And if he also bartered away plums that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year, he did no injury; he wasted not the common stock;
Pàgina 314 - power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands." But, then, though a king with legislative power, cannot, in virtue of such legislative power, alienate his kingdom, so that sovereignty
Pàgina 540 - should otherwise have a right to take, if they did not happen to be in such places as he has an exclusive right to. In like manner, though we have a general right to take the goods of an enemy, when they are out at sea, yet there is some reason to doubt, whether the

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