of virtue. 106, 107.
4. and know the particular laws of nature. 107.
BOOK II. Elements of the Law of Nature.
Chapt. I. Of the Law of Nature. 109.
1. The general doctrine of morals. ib. The notions of right and wrong. ib. Law of nature what. ib. 110. The notion of a law. 111.
2. The Deity’s right of governing founded on his moral perfections. ib. Human power how founded. 112.
3. God the author of the law of nature. ib. Two parts in a law, the precept and sanction. 113.
4. Laws natural and positive in a double sense. ib.
5. Privilegia. 114. Equity. ib. 115.
6. Dispensations twofold. 115. what is a dispensation properly. ib. 116.
7. Laws primary and secondary. 116. two general laws. 117.
Chapt. II. Of Rights and their divisions. 118.
1. A social life necessary. ib. 119.
2. Rights of men how notified, and what. 119. no right valid against the general good. 120. the notion of obligation twofold. 121.
3. Rights perfect and imperfect. 122. various degrees of them. ib. 123. External rights. 123. no opposition among just rights. ib.
4. What rights alienable, and what not. 124. two general social laws. ib.
Chapt. III. Degrees of virtue and vice and the circumstances on which they depend. 125.
1. Conscience what. ib. its different divisions. Actions good materially or formally. ib. 126.
2. Circumstance affecting the morality of actions threefold. 126. Liberty necessary. ib. Actions of three sorts called involuntary. 127.
3. Ignorance and error voluntary or not. ib. of law or fact. 128.
4. Questions about an erroneous conscience. 129.
5. Circumstances affecting morality which relate to the will. 130. Kind affections of different moral beauty. ib. 131, 132, 133. <xii>
6. General rules of estimation. 133. Private interests abate the virtue of actions. 134.
7. The importance of actions affects their morality. 135. how the events of them are imputed. 136, 137.
8. The effects of custom and habit. 137. when actions of others are imputed. 138.
Chapt. IV. Of the nature of rights of individuals. 139.
1. The several states of men. ib. State of natural liberty. ib. society absolutely necessary. 140.
2. Rights private, publick, or common to all. 141. Right natural or acquired. ib.
3. Private natural rights. 141, 142. that of private judgment, &c. 142.
4. The natural equality of men. 143. no natural right to power. 144.
5. The imperfect natural rights. ib. 145.
6. The rules of beneficence. 145, 146.
Chapt. V. Real adventitious rights and property. 147.
1. Real right, property. ib.
2. Right of dominion over animals. ib. 148.
3. The eating of flesh. 148, 149.
4. Foundations of property. 149. Community of goods pernicious. 150, 151.
Chapt. VI. Methods of acquiring property. 152.
1. Original property from occupation. ib.
2. What sort of occupation preferable. 153, &c.
3. Perpetual property. 156. when property begins. ib. how far it extends. 157.
4. Things destined to be common. 158. Community negative and positive. 159.
Chapt. VII. Of derived property. 163.
1. Rights real and personal, how they arise. ib. 164.
2. Parts of property subsisting separately. 165. Possession. ib. Presumptive property, and rules about it. 165, &c.
3. Rights of entail. 168.
4. Pledges and mortgages. ib. 169.
5. Servitudes. 169, 170.
Chapt. VIII. The transferring of property, successions, testaments, &c. 171.
1. Property transferred by the deed of the proprietor, &c. ib.
2. Transferring on the event of death, wills. ib. Just debts preferable. 172. <xiii>
3. Property transferred by law during life. 173. and on the event of death. ib. The natural order of succession. 174, 175.
4. lineal succession not natural. 175, 176.
Chapt. IX. Of Contracts in general. 177.
1. The necessity of contracts. ib. 178. they found perfect rights. ib.
2. They oblige tho’ made imprudently. 179. Matters of Commerce. ib.
3. Three forms of speaking to be distinguished. ib. 180.
4. Understanding necessary. 180. The case of minors and madmen. 181, 182.
5. Mistakes and errors in contracts. 182, 183.
6. Voluntary consent necessary. 184, 185. Tacit conventions. ib. conditions. ib. mutual consent. ib.
7. What conditions to be regarded. 186.
