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as in the preceding part of our Author's
introductions. st place he minate ord Law: confining of another formally. & perceptible nal senses it to signi ductions 's reason. ms of fancy. place he to guess at cans by Nature. we can &

Before we can
To make us understand what cure the Laws of
Nature, if any such there be, we must understand
what is meant by the State of Nature.
When Divines talk of a state of Nature, they
mean by it that State or Condition, in which
they generality suppose all the generality of Mankind to have been before
the prosaic Dispensation, & in which they
suppose that part of Mankind still to be continue,
to whom the Mosaic of Christian dispensations
are unknown. But was it allowable
in our author to use the term in this
But our author cannot have used the term in this
sense: can it sense because in this sense it cannot with any propriety be
applied in this sense in a Treatise
on Jurisprudence. How so? Does the Author never use his words in any sense but the proper one? When Lawyers talk
of a state of Nature,if they mean any
thing by it, they must mean that state
or condition in which men existed
or would have existed before their
entrance into Society: or which is the same thing before their
submission to any positive Laws.*
Now


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Identifier: | JB/096/010/001
"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

010

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

note / note

Category

collectanea

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c25 / c26 / c27 / c28

Penner

168

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

[[notes_public::"to be copied where no red line drawn through" [note not in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

31014

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