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To be omitted unintelligible to a man of common —
understanding.

Our Author seems to have been led into this
inaccurate use of the term law, by a servile
imitation of Montesquieu. Montesquieu
had said before him, "Tous les êtres ont leurs
"loix, la divinitè a ses loix, le monde materiel
"a ses loix, les intelligences superieures
"à l'homme ont leurs loix, les bêtes ont leurs
"loix, l'homme a ses loix."
But then Esprit des loix. livre prem: Chap prem:
Montesquieu had given a different diff
definition of law: he had said, "les loix sont les
"rapports, qui derivent de la nature des choses."

and, supposing this definition to be just,
supposing it not to have mistaken the his
foundation of Law, for Law itself, then the

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Identifier: | JB/096/002/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

002

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c11 f2 / c12 / c13 / c14

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be omitted" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31006

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