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Supply
I know no course so effectual as that promises better than that of setting
the only way is to set it at variance with itself. But
a in an appendix or a note would be the more suitable place, if there be any suitable place,
for a discussion so frivolous and uninstructive.(a)
Note
(a) Natural right, admitting its existence for though
one were to admitt for arguments sake its existence
and its preeminence over considerations of utility, Natural law, make the most of it, decides
nothing in favour of the perpetrating indefeasibility of such
collateral succession thus remote.
It is as much as you do with it, and It a The utmost you can do with it such a notion, is to
perhaps now, to make a very general rule out of it in favour
of children and their relations in the descending
line. Go into details, you will find you can not
stir a step without having recourse to positive law.
This unerring guide lawgiver, whose dictates laws are in no
considerations of utility to be controuled, this unerring
guide lawgiver, whose laws prescriptions indications should be equally
manifest to all nations, gives berth to positive receives interpretations
which are not the same in any two nations
whatsoever. In what proportion shall the succession
be shared among children? What of if any effect if any shall
be the effect in this instance of be the effect given to eldership, O to
juniority, of to sex? Shall there be any and what
difference between the half-blood and the whole-blood?
In what proportion shall the estate be shared
among children and descendants of children?
Shall the natural or conventional quality of the subject, whether it be moveable its mobility or immobility,
its reality or personality, or wherever after and so forth makes any difference? –
and so on for ever more – The For no two countries has the solution given to these questions has
been
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