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eternal, immutable laws of good and evil, to which
the creator himself in all his dispensations conforms;
and which he has enabled human reason
to discover so far as they are necessary for
the conduct of human actions. Relations of
Justice... Nature of things,..eternal, immutable laws...
... necessary.. all sounds so many sounds without a meaning.
But now we may expect something a little more
solid: now we come at last to particulars: now
we come to some specific articles of this many-titled
law. "Such among others" confirms our Author "are these principles:
"that we should live honestly, should hurt
"nobody, and should render to every body one his due;
"to which those general principles precepts Justinian
"has reduced the whole doctrine of law." "Juris praecepta sunt haec", says Justinian, "honeste vivere
"alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere. Just. 7.1.3.

Here then we have a sample of this same law
of Nature: and a pretty large sample it should
seem to be; since, according to Justinian, says love is all
of it. Indeed not only of it, doctrine not only of the
Law of nature, but of every thing else that is
known by the name of Law; of the what is called Municipal
Law therefore among the rest: if "Jus" means
Law.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	Comment on the Commentaries
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	Law of Nature
Image	002	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering	B5 / B6 / B7 / B8
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::GR [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9305
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