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To be
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 etres ont leurs
"lois, la divinite a ses loix, le monde
questionable reading"riel a ses loix, les intelligences superieurs
"a l'homme ont leurs loix, les betes only leurs
"loix, l'homme a ses loix." But then Esprit des loix. livre prem: chap prem:Montesquieu had given a differentdiff
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 this foundation of Law for Law itself, then
the

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