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Show [ Vi ] " Sovereignty of another, is at the fame "time, fuppofed to have agreed to all " the f'uturcAé‘ts ofthat Sovereignty(6)." (He has neverthelefs thought preper to add an obfervation which makes {trongly againft his own argument.) " Though it w0uld really be very ufeful," (fays he,) " and contribute much to engaging the " Subjects in a voluntary Oéedieizcg, if " the Laws could be made with their " Cori/2‘71! and Approhation; efpecially " fuch as are to pats into their Lives and " Manners." [ vii ] cient Englifh writers of the Common Law ofthis Kingdom (7) ; yet it includes fome heterogeneous politions (that have been forced upon it by the overbearing influence and corrupt practices ot-unlimited Imperial Courts) which are highly unreafonable and contradictory to the ge- neral equity of its other principles. A pofition of this kind, too implicitly received as Law, feems to be the ground- work of the learned Baron's ditficulty: I mean that zmrm/ozzzzb/e and dangerous potition of the Civil Law, which attri- Now it would be impofiible (I appre- butes to the Prince's "7/7 mm' Flea/me the Forte of Law (8). I do not find, in- hend) to find fo jufl: a reafon in favour of the former part of the learned Baron's deed, nfl‘ertion, as he himfelf has here given direéi'ly agaily}. it; and yet he is frequent- (7) " What ufe our ancefiors have made of the civil " Law will readily appear to any one, that will take ly harping upon the fame harfh firing of " the trouble to compare the feveral works, which com- abfolute implicit obedience; which inconfil'rency cannot ealily be accoumed " ancient linglilh Lawyers. for, unlefs it be attributed to [be prejudice " rules and method of juilinian; have tr'ztnlCIibCLl his " Laws in their own proper language, and {ome- _of/Jis education as a ltudent in the Impa- prrial or Civil Law. For though the Civil Law contains many excellent max- " timES entire titles, as familiarly as it they were the " original Laws of England." Dr. Bever's Dilcourle on the Study of juris-prudence and the Civ:l Law, " pole that voluminous body, with fome ot‘ the molt ims highly worthy of our efieem, molt of which have been adopted by our an' cient as (ilanvil, Braaon, " and others ; who have adhered very clol‘ely to tho p. i7. (8) " bod Principi placuit (juxta Leges Civiles) " Legis habet vigorem." b‘ortelcue dc Lat: '. Leg. Ang. c. 35. p. 82,. In this lame chapter the learned Chancellor Fortefcue recites many dreadful cfi‘efits of this abominable (6) Law of Nature and Nations, I" 55- ‘ Book 1. c. o, principle |