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Show f Of W11r· a-nd Peace it is not therefore to be .d~ecmed void; For it remains in the domm10n of the firlt occupator , to wit, t.he people or King. Such are wont to be nvers, lakes, ponds, . . woods wild mountains. Next, conccrn-covavr • '·pee- . ~ld beafl:s fillies birds It is to be catNm. par. 1.. ~ nmg Wl ' ' ' sm. 8. noted, that he who hath comma 1~d over the lands and· waters , may by h1s Law . hinder others froth catching and acqui- , rino the beafls, fifhes , and birds: and Dd.Jh t.cmt'Ctos by ~hat Law are foteiners alfo bound. The pupr~fp'1. I. de Reafon is ~ becaufe to the govermcnt of a !fi?!!: Ttftt. pcop1e 'it is morally neceffary , that r.hey avar. d,l4". vv ho min ole with them but for· a wne (which isz:;,don~ by e~tring the· ter.ri~ory) -~ ..- ·: ~ .. , render themfdves conformable ~o the In· . ''· :::•1. : . fhtmion of that-people. Nor .15 t~atagain! l: us , 'that we read oftert in tile Ro· manJ.aw, faying,.by the La~ of~ature, or nations ' it is free to hunt and take fuch creatures . . For 'thls is true ' fo long as no Civil Law intercedes; (as th~ .R~man taw left many things in t~at pnnu-t'lVe Hate concerning which thmgs ocher nations ;nade ocher confl:itut'ions) ~ut when the Civil Law ordainetb otherwi[~, ihe very law of nature diCtates' that It ouohttO be ob[c:rved. For, the ~ivil ~a'wh tbgugh j,c can command nothmg_ w 1h,at the Law of nature forbids,nor fo!b1~ wum )t commands, neverthelefs may 1.t ~IJ~ha~ fcribe natural liberty ' and ~~o~tb~t force was naturally lawfull,~n? a 0 Y ~snatu· antev'ert that very ?ommwn,whtc XIX. ra1ly is to be acqmred. {I ' XlX. Over things rtMdeproper, mm have a right to ufe them , in rime of necelfit1 : lind when~e ·tt &bf!Jes. Now _let us_fee,what cotriltton ri~htis .c-omp-etent to men over thofe th1hgs-, which <rt'e made ptoper un"to forne.Whic'b queLliorr,perha ps fome may-wonder at, feing p!optiety may feem fo have fwallow .. . ·_ .. ') ed up aU t~at right, which arofe from the commort flate of things. But it is not fo. 'For , it muH be cortftdered , vvh~t Was the mind of them ' who firfi introduced f1ngu1at dominion~: which is fo be believed fuch , as hath receded a., littl~ ·as might be from natural equity. For, if alfo written Laws are to be dra wn,as far as they may; into that fenfe; ·much more ~te Cufioms , that are not .bound up in. wri- · :• tmg. Ph1l then , it follows hence ·, th~t; L: z. sea. cu'm in exrrdne neceffity 1 tba~ old r1ght of u- iutde"!: D. d4 6~hungs revives, as if the things· had re" l. 'I{_hodeaf~!. ~-. , ma1. J.d. • h . r . ll h . qUo rtauftaf)in/1. c ·common : ecaUte , m a . aman s. quod altai) conilitutionlg , and therefore in the :t~vy de lnm~l~ L. • of Dominion too 3 that extreme neceffity .~_rumad!Mtlfl-: feems.eteepred .. H~ce.iti is, tbat 'igna .. Se(l.ltem_.~ -f·inga ~dfi~;·~1f at >-a-n,cr.fttret vi&oa.J:s·fiilb/t~L.fiqt~~l lA~-, 1 J. o.l .h..1JJL I"h ~ . ~-'II I'JIJ11J• .%.%,go. W at .C'ftf •"'m:. <Hn"Uttgmto ci-1: urb~ht >7• COwrr. e/ forth for the common ute. And fo, in apeccat."Z.,fefl.r~ • fire, I may pull dpwn my neighbours Sot• l. f,g. 3• houfe to Clve mine :and cut in pieces the art. 4· tackling or nets upon which my fhip is driven, |