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Sect. Interpretation. 23
"Lastly", says he, "where words are clearly
"repugnant in two laws, the later law takes
"place of the elder: Legal produce
"arrogant is a maxim of universal law, as
"well as of our own constitutions. And accor—
dingly it was laid down by a law of the
12 tables at Rome, quod popules
jupit, ed jusrature esto.
All This is undeniable: and then he was about it
was being can it would not have have many more words
than it took to tell us of it's body a maxim
of universal law, to have given us the reason
why it could not be. If the will of past former
laws oflegislators has the force of law at all, it is
only because it is faculty adopted by the present.
Will when without it has no power to back it is just
nothing: and dead men can no more
blows, than they can tell tales.
In the infancy of legislation, we are told go a home
when it was a kind of doubt, whether
the acts of departed legislators were bending:
It believe would be not add enough, had such
a doubt ever been formed concerning the act
of present those for the time being. As to those words uni—
versal law, they almost make me humiliated
for her it should prove a law to the account
present power
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