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book XX.: of laws in relation to commerce, considered in its nature and distinctions.
book XXI.: of laws relative to commerce, considered in the revolutions it has met with in the world.
book XXII.: of laws in relation to the use of money.
book XXIII.: of laws in the relation they bear to the number of inhabitants.
book XXIV.: of laws as relative to religion, considered in itself, and in its doctrines.
book XXV.: of laws as relative to the establishment of religion and its external polity.
book XXVI.: of laws, as relative to the order of things on which they determine.
chap. I.: idea of this book.
chap II.: of laws divine and human.
chap. III.: of civil laws contrary to the law of nature.
chap. IV.: the same subject continued.
chap. V.: cases in which we may judge by the principles of the civil law, in limiting the principles of the law of nature.
chap. VI.: that the order of succession or inheritance depends on the principles of political or civil law, and not on those of the law of nature.
chap. VII.: that we ought not to decide by the precepts of religion, what belongs only to the law of nature.
chap. VIII.: that we ought not to regulate by the principles of the canon law, things which should be regulated by those of the civil law.
chap. IX.: that things which ought to be regulated by the principles of civil law, can seldom be regulated by those of religion.
chap. X.: in what case we ought to follow the civil law which permits, and not the law of religion which forbids.
chap. XI.: that human courts of justice should not be regulated by the maxims of those tribunals which relate to the other life.
chap. XII.: the same subject continued.
chap. XIII.: in what cases, with regard to marriage, we ought to follow the laws of religion; and in what cases we should follow the civil laws.
chap. XIV.: in what instances marriages between relations should be regulated by the laws of nature; and in what instances by the civil laws.
chap. XV.: that we should not regulate by the principles of political law, those things which depend on the principles of civil law.
chap. XVI.: that we ought not to decide by the rules of the civil law, when it is proper to decide by those of the political law.
chap. XVII.: the same subject continued.
chap. XVIII.: that it is necessary to enquire, whether the laws which seem contradictory, are of the same class.
chap. XIX.: that we should not decide those things by the civil law, which ought to be decided by domestic laws.
chap. XX.: that we ought not to decide by the principles of the civil law, those things which belong to the law of nations.
chap. XXI.: that we should not decide by political laws, things which belong to the law of nations.
chap. XXII.: the unhappy state of the ynca athualpa.
chap. XXIII.: that when, by some circumstance, the political law becomes destructive to the state, we ought to decide by such a political law as will preserve it, which sometimes becomes a law of nations.
chap. XXIV.: that the regulations of the police are of a different class from other civil laws.
chap. XXV.: that we should not follow the general disposition of the civil law, in things which ought to be subject to particular rules drawn from their own nature.
book XXVII.: of the origin and revolutions of the roman laws on successions.
book XXVIII.: of the origin and revolutions of the civil laws among the french.
book XXIX.: of the manner of composing laws.
book XXX.: theory of the feudal laws among the franks, in the relation they bear to the establishment of the monarchy.
book XXXI.: theory of the feudal laws among the franks, in the relation they bear to the revolutions of their monarchy.
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