"Of Identity and Diversity." "Of Moral Relations." BOOK II. c. 28, 29. "Of Words." Book iii. (the whole.) "Of Maxims." chap. 7th. "Of Probability." chap. 15th. "Of the Degrees of Assent." chap. 16th. "Of Reason." chap. 17th. "Of Errour." chap. 20th. BOOK IV. 9th. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments; (particular attention to be paid to part iv. "Of the Systems of Moral Philosophy.") 10th. Reid's Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind; (particular attention to be paid to the following Essays:) Essay i. "Preliminary." Vol. 1st. Essay vi. "Of Judgment." Vol. 2d. Essay vii. "Of Reasoning." Vol. 2d. Essay iii. "Of the Rational Principles of Action." Vol. 3d. Part 3d. Essay iv. "Of the Liberty of Moral Agents." Vol. 3d. Part 3d. Essay v. "Of Morals." Vol. 3d. Part 3d. (Note 8.) 11th. Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, (the 6th Book.)* * Vide note 7 on Title I. 12th. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science. "Of Politicks." 13th. Burlamaqui's Institutes of Natural and Political Law. (Note 9.) 14th. Rutherforth's Institutes. (Note 10.) E. 15th. Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; the first eleven chapters.* E. 16th. Aristotle's Politicks. (Note 11.) 17th. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws; particu lar attention to be paid to the 28th, 30th, and 31st books, for the reasons assigned in note 2, to the second Title of this work. (Note 12.) E. 18th. Count de Cataneo's Source, Strength, and True Spirit of Laws, in which the errours and defects of M. de Montesquieu are pointed out and considered. (Note 13.) 19th. The following select chapters in Grotius, "On the Rights of War and Peace." (Note 14.) 1st. The Preliminary Discourse. 2d. The 5th chap. of the 2d book entitled, "Of the Original Acquisition of a right over Persons;" "of the right of Parents;" "of Marriage;" "of Societies;" * Vide note 2 to Title VII. † Vide note 5 to this Title. "of the right over Subjects;" "of Slaves." 3d. The 7th ch. entitled "Of Acquisitions by virtue of some Law," and "of Succession to the Estate and Effects of an Intestate." 4th. The 9th chap. "When Juris diction and Property cease." 5th. The 11th ch. "Of Promises." 6th. The 12th ch. "Of Contracts." 7th. The 16th chap. "Of Interpretation." 20th. The following select chapters in Puffendorf, on the Law of Nature and Nations. (Note 14.) 1st. "Of the Certainty of Moral Science." ch. vii. 2d. "Of Law in general." chap. vi. 3d. "Of the Qualities of Moral Actions." ch. vii. 4th "Of the Law of Na ture in general," ch. iii. "Of Self-Defence."ch. v. Book I. Book II. 5th. "Of Ministers in general," &c. chap. ix. book. iii. 6th.* "Of an Oath.,' ch. ii. book iv. *It will not be premature for the student in this place, to read the celebrated case of Omicund v. Barker: Atkyns' Reports, p. 21. 7th. "Of Price." chap. i. 9th. "Of Renting and Hir->Book V. 10th. "Of Partnership." chap. viii. 11th. "Of the Master's Authority," &c. (Note 1.) THE BIBLE. The Bible forms a very natural introduction to this Course, as recording a form of government and law originating in the great legislator of the universe; whose pleasure it was to enjoin, by a direct communication of his will, those duties, and declare those obligations which, when by reasoning on the nature and relations of man, we have concluded to be such, we consider as the dic tates of the law of nature. Those ordinances also, which were not designed to be of universal authority, but only to regulate the polity of the particular people to whom they were delivered, should however be minutely known; as they are, in many instances, the foundation of the law, and the clue to the controversies of the Canonists. The Bible is valuable also in two other points of light: it affords the only authentick history of the origin and multiplication of mankind; and by exhibiting the actual manner in which society was generated, and communities were formed, offers the best theory of the social compact; a point on which there has been no small misconception. Its historical parts will tend to shew with great probability, that those general principles of morals prevalent amongst the rudest and most unlettered nations, and which have perhaps been too hastily attributed to the efforts of natural reason, are more rationally to be ascribed to direct revelation, and will appear, with all the errours and impurities which time, situation, and the proclivity to corruption may have produced, to have been the broken glimpses of a fuller and clearer light, originally radiated directly from heaven. These remarks apply of course chiefly to those portions of the Bible connected with the origin and polity of the Jews. The purity and sublimity of the morals of the Bible have at no time and in no country been questioned; it is the foundation of the common law of every christian nation. The christian religion is a part of the law of the land, and, as such, should certainly receive no inconsiderable portion of the lawyer's attention. In vain do we look among the writings of the ancient phi |