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Show of Wt~r ~11d Pe"e for the common too , where ootnlnon are wanting ; or becau[e the ufe of art is wi,. Vide Guice. der than popular ufe ; as dettth * in the L 16. ubi de Civil Law is enlarged to lignify deporta. pa8:is <::ar. $. tion, when among the people ic fignifies • ad Medtola- otherwife. Moreover , we mull: note,that nenfem Duca- h' ·r d [ r '-L .. tUm pertinen- .t ~ngs prDmtJe ~ orne are .la-z:orao e,iome tibus fermo. odsous , f.:>me mtxt, or of a mtddle nature. Alc.f.refp.I7. Favorable are thofe which have in theffi,. felves equality , and which regard common utility; the greater this is, and more f:JCtended, fo much greater is the favour of the promife; as of tbings which make for peace , than of thofe which make for War; and of War D.::fenfive, than upon other caufes. Odious are iucli as burden one part only , or one more than the o· ~her, and fuch as contein in them punifhmenc, and make ad-s void, and bring in a , change of what was before.Thatwhich i5 mixt ,crs bringing a change, but for peace fa~e , proportionally .to the good , or the change will be efl:eemed fometime favou· rab:e, fomctime odious, yet, fo that Ctfte- Gl- in tt.unn ris pllriblu favour is to be preferred. Upon pef{'unt. D. de there grounds the(e Rules ;tre to be kept, Ltgibza • In tnings not odiH.r , the words are to ~e taken acco~duig to the. full propriety. of popular ufe , and if there be more figrnfications , .the I~rgefl is befi; vrz.-. the Ma1· culin is to be taken for the Common Gen· der, and an indefinh fpeech for an·U• niv~~fal. So thefe words , unde quis deje8. U4 eft , whenq_e one is difpoj[eft, will · · pertain ,· 'IhJ feeontl £Att~ tlf. pertain alfo to th.e refl:oring of hi~, wh.o by force is proh1bited to come 1nto ht.s own. For the word taken more largely bears that fignification,as Cjcero difputes B•rt. ittlib.p;, for A. Cttcina. In the mort favorable , if qui l;·umptort. . the fpeaker underfl:and the Law , 01· ufe D. de t~[t~c. the Counfel of Lawyers ,. the words are top~ taken more largely~ that they may t VidecxcMalJo mclude the figmficauon of Art, or plum in 1. cta111 which the Law hath given. But we muH virum c. den· not recur t to fignifications plainly im· dei com. proper-, unlefs otherwife fome abfurdity or inutility of the Agreement would follow. Cwtr. 3·.},.r",'~· On the ot hc r nr. d e, wor ds are to be ta k en, 'i·nJ l·t g•.• ufn·n' 14b'.l,' even more H:ri&ly, than propriety fuffers, Gl. f· n. uf, if it be neceffary for the a voiding of ini"' quity or abfurdity : but , if there be not fuch necdlity, but mai1ifefi equity or uti-lity in the refiritl:ion, we mull: fiay within the narrowefl: bo~nds of propriety, unlds the circumfl:'ances diffwade. But in odioiU things, even a figurative fpeech is admit-ted , whereby the ot)ium or bur then may pe thunned. Therefore in donation and remiffion of ones right , words , though gene1·al , are wont to be refirained unto thole things which were probab~y thought UJ ·On. And in this kind of things,that w1ll be fometitpe underilood to be cccupied , which, it is hoped, may be rcteined. So, 1 aidspromifed from one part only,will be ::rb. 4• con(. · ·. underllcod to be due at the charges of • hi~ wh? fhal require them, ,) LVIII. |
