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Laws are When a Law is made, to the intent is that it [the intent they may] be
obey'd: Mischievous they may be of mischief without
being obeyd: they Mischievous allways are of mischief
when they are not obey'd: but they never bensificial they
are cannot of never are they cannot be of use, any farther than they are
obey'd.
a Laws, To be obey'd, Laws must be possessed —
by those who are to obey them it: thus it's being
possessed in a such manner as is necessary
to this end, depends upon a number of properties
of the Law which it is necessary
it should have in order for to enable the mind to
have get & keep the proper hold of it: as it were in the or rather upon a number
of vitious properties of which it should stand clear be devoid,
in order not to in the mind from so doing, for the mind not to be hinderd from so doing.
The idea of possession in the such as it is
in our mind when we speak as here, of a law's being
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possessed, is not a little complex: let us analyze
it into it's component parts.
A Law is the will, of him who makes it, + + the Legislator. expressed
in words.
This will thus expressed consists, in the
of an act [viz: a species of acts] to be
done or to be forborn: done, or forborn
as the case is, either simply, or
upon under certain conditions. In order to save repetitions We will consider, here confine ourselves for only
the case of a Law willing somthing to be forborn.
For the Law therefore to be possessed by a man in the
sense we are speaking of, things are necessary:
For the danger which there it is ever subject to of of it's missing of
this much arises almost always from something
i:e: from some words which it is
seen to have, rather than from any words which
it can be shewn to want.
COMPOS: The Requisites to a Laws being possessed. [BR][1*]
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