Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on Grotius De Jure Belli Et Pacis |
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... produced , 294 VIII . Executive body , how fixed , 295 IX . National constitution , a question of fact , 296 X ... produce its external obligation , VI . Penal sanctions , not essential to civil laws , VII . Proper matter of civil ...
... produced , 294 VIII . Executive body , how fixed , 295 IX . National constitution , a question of fact , 296 X ... produce its external obligation , VI . Penal sanctions , not essential to civil laws , VII . Proper matter of civil ...
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... produce a reasonable effect , IX . Words of a law , or other writing , are to be construed by its circumstances , X. Strict and large interpretation , what , XI . Meaning of the writer , how extended by rational interpretation , XII ...
... produce a reasonable effect , IX . Words of a law , or other writing , are to be construed by its circumstances , X. Strict and large interpretation , what , XI . Meaning of the writer , how extended by rational interpretation , XII ...
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... produce , having no prudence but his own to contrive for himself , and having no strength but his own to defend him , would be unable to obtain such a degree of happiness , as his nature prompts him to desire , and much more unable to ...
... produce , having no prudence but his own to contrive for himself , and having no strength but his own to defend him , would be unable to obtain such a degree of happiness , as his nature prompts him to desire , and much more unable to ...
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... produce a common harm , are morally bad : they make a bad part in the morals or behaviour of those persons who do them . Such actions are indiffer- ent , as do not affect the general good or welfare of others , either one way or another ...
... produce a common harm , are morally bad : they make a bad part in the morals or behaviour of those persons who do them . Such actions are indiffer- ent , as do not affect the general good or welfare of others , either one way or another ...
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... produce the same moral effect as if they had been right . Where the obligation of the law is perfect , such acts as are contrary to it , are void ; or no moral effect is produced by them . The law says , Thou shalt not steal . The ...
... produce the same moral effect as if they had been right . Where the obligation of the law is perfect , such acts as are contrary to it , are void ; or no moral effect is produced by them . The law says , Thou shalt not steal . The ...
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Page 430 - For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will, ye may do them good ; but me ye have not always.
Page 475 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 133 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Page 474 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 469 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 425 - As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
Page 226 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Page 471 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 30 - I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour...
Page 422 - And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit...