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Publique Minister Who

Ministers For The Generall Administration

For Speciall Administration, As For Oeconomy

For Instruction Of The People

For Judicature

For Execution

Counsellers Without Other Employment Then To Advise


CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE NUTRITION, AND PROCREATION OF A COMMON-WEALTH

And The Right Of Distribution Of Them

All Private Estates Of Land Proceed Originally

Propriety Of A Subject Excludes Not The Dominion Of The Soveraign,

The Publique Is Not To Be Dieted

The Places And Matter Of Traffique Depend, As Their Distribution,

The Laws Of Transferring Property Belong Also To The Soveraign

Mony The Bloud Of A Common-wealth

The Conduits And Way Of Mony To The Publique Use

The Children Of A Common-wealth Colonies


CHAPTER XXV. OF COUNSELL

Counsell What

Differences Between Command And Counsell

Exhortation And Dehortation What

Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours


CHAPTER XXVI. OF CIVILL LAWES

Civill Law what

The Soveraign Is Legislator

And Not Subject To Civill Law

Use, A Law Not By Vertue Of Time, But Of The Soveraigns Consent

The Law Of Nature, And The Civill Law Contain Each Other

Provinciall Lawes Are Not Made By Custome, But By The Soveraign Power

Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes

Law Made, If Not Also Made Known, Is No Law

Unwritten Lawes Are All Of Them Lawes Of Nature

Nothing Is Law Where The Legislator Cannot Be Known

Difference Between Verifying And Authorising

The Law Verifyed By The Subordinate Judge

By The Publique Registers

By Letters Patent, And Publique Seale

The Interpretation Of The Law Dependeth On The Soveraign Power

All Lawes Need Interpretation

The Authenticall Interpretation Of Law Is Not That Of Writers

The Interpreter Of The Law Is The Judge Giving Sentence Viva Voce

The Sentence Of A Judge, Does Not Bind Him, Or Another Judge

The Difference Between The Letter And Sentence Of The Law

The Abilities Required In A Judge

Divisions Of Law

Another Division Of Law

Divine Positive Law How Made Known To Be Law

Another Division Of Lawes

A Fundamentall Law What

Difference Between Law And Right

And Between A Law And A Charter


CHAPTER XXVII. OF CRIMES, EXCUSES, AND EXTENUATIONS

A Crime What

Where No Civill Law Is, There Is No Crime

Ignorance Of The Law Of Nature Excuseth No Man

Ignorance Of The Civill Law Excuseth Sometimes

Ignorance Of The Soveraign Excuseth Not

Ignorance Of The Penalty Excuseth Not

Punishments Declared Before The Fact, Excuse From Greater Punishments

Nothing Can Be Made A Crime By A Law Made After The Fact

False Principles Of Right And Wrong Causes Of Crime

False Teachers Mis-interpreting The Law Of Nature Secondly, by false

And False Inferences From True Principles, By Teachers

By Their Passions;

Presumption Of Riches

And Friends

Wisedome



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