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Offences against Condition — Adultery. Reasons
In what point of view Adultery is to be consider'd here Adultery may be consider'd in a two-fold point
of view: 1. as an injury to an individual: 2.
as an offence against morality. It is in the first
point of view only that it comes to be consider'd
here.
General nature of the injury. Adultery consider'd in this point of view is
nothing but a violation of a particular species
of property: the property which exists the married
persons respectively possess in the person and
personal services of each other.
In this way of considering the subject there is
nothing that need startle or surprize us: Be it
on what occasion and for what purpose it may,
whoever engages to render any services of any kind
to any other, may pro tanto be consider'd as
becoming the property of that other. The party
to be benefitted by the stipulation has not the
absolute dominion over him: he has however a
property more or less extensive in his
services: in such or such of the services which
the party obliged is capable of rendering: if they These
may be active services or services of submission:
corporal services, mental services or merit: But
at any rate they are certain services; and in
virtue of such services, he has a kind of interest or property
in his person.
The whole of public assemblage of the Whatever real
existences which are are capable of becoming the objects of property
the whole assemblage of them may be comprehended under the one or other of
the two names of things or persons. Things become
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