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Show [ "> ties. 1A, war-"1111110.; ‘4‘; mu?!9 ., In LAW [229] " the OF ENGLAND, ' is reminded that thefe conquered Countries as are not inhabited by the conquered People, "fitch, has no ALLOWANCE or authority but chiefly by Briti/h Suhjeflr, {ucceflbrs " there ; they being no part (f the mother " Country, hat ell/lino} (though dependent) " Dozniniom." But, when he reconfiders to the Conquerors, who are entitled by this part of his work, I truf'r he will al- Birth-right to the Common Law (f England, and every other privilege of Englifhmen, quite as much as thofe Eng/(fl; low that the COMMON LAW of England Suhjeélr mentioned by him at the top of is principally founded on Rea/on, natural yuflice, and the eternal Laws ofGoa' 5 and confequently all that part of the COM- the fame page. " For it hath heen held," (fays he) " that if an uninhahited country 9‘ he (Ii/covered and PLANTED BY ENG- MON LAW, which ariles from thcjefoun- " LISH SUBJECTS, dations, MUST HAVE " allowance or " authority," not only there (viz. in the Englifh Colonies) but every where an, "GLISH LAWS THEN 1N BEING, '~‘ which are the BIRTH-RIGHT OF " EVERY SUBJECT, are immediately if the unjul't pretenfions of Tyrants were " THERE 1N FORCE." to be duly reflrained by Law and Equity : 197. This doftrine is unqueflionable; and the more {0 beeaufe allowed by him- " -e .1, at. "H! I IllIlll l-l. ] flna' therefore" (/ilys he " COMMON .f , i' 228 and, with refpeét to the remaining part of the COMMON LAW, confifiing in am: ALL THE EN- 1 Com. p. culiar to Englijh Suhjeots, he will not be felf: And though he has been pleafed to add, that "this my} he under/loot! with " 'very many and very great njtrifliom ," backward, I trufi, to grant them alfo that "/itch Colony}: carry with them only ff allowance or authority there," when he "/0 much of the Engli/h Law, as is ap- cient and approved ufager and cafloms, pe- is ‘ I " plicable |