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A METHODICAL SYSTEM of Universal Law: or, the Laws of Nature and Nations Deduced From Certain Principles, and applied to Proper Cases. Written in Latin by the celebrated JO. GOT. HEINECCIUS, Counsellor of State to the King of Prussia, and Professor of Philosophy at Hall. Translated, and illustrated with Notes and Supplements, By GEORGE TURNBULL, LL. D. To which is added, A DISCOURSE upon the Nature and Origine of Moral and Civil Laws; in which they are deduced, by an Analysis of the Human Mind in the experimental Way, from our internal Principles and Dispositions. Natura enim juris ab hominis repetenda natura est.1 Cic. vol. i. london: Printed for J. Noon, at the White-Hart, near Mercer’s Chapel, Cheapside. MDCCXLI. 1. The nature of law has to be derived from human nature. ...

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