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Treatise — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)

Treatise On Laws

Law is the external and remote rule of human acts, just as conscience, or the practical dictate of reason, is the internal and proximate rule of the same acts.

One must treat 1. of laws in general; 2. of the principal species of laws.

Within this treatise

Part One. On Laws in Generalnn. 81–121
- Chapter I. On the Nature and Properties of Lawnn. 81–82
- Chapter II. On the Author of Law or on the Legislatornn. 83–87
- Chapter III. On the Object and Subject of Lawnn. 88–95
  - Article I. On the Object of Lawnn. 88–90
  - Article II. On the Subject of Lawnn. 91–95
- Chapter IV. On the Promulgation and Acceptance of Lawnn. 96–99
  - Article I. On the Promulgation of Lawnn. 96–97
  - Article II. On the Acceptance of Lawnn. 98–99
- Chapter V. On the Obligation of Lawnn. 100–111
  - Article I. On the Force of Obligationnn. 100–102
  - Article II. On the Mode of Satisfying the Obligation of Lawnn. 103–107
  - Article III. On the Causes Excusing from Lawnn. 108–111
    § I. On the Nature of Those Things Which De-Obligatenn. 108–109
    § II. On the Voluntary Placing of De-Obligating Causesnn. 110–111
- Chapter VI. On the Interpretation of Law and Epikeiann. 112–113
  - § I. On the Interpretation of Lawn. 112
  - § II. On Epikeia (Epieikeia)n. 113
- Chapter VII. On the Dispensation of Lawnn. 114–120
  - Article I. On the Power of Dispensingnn. 115–116
  - Article II. On the Causes Required for Dispensingnn. 117–119
  - Article III. On the Cessation of Dispensationn. 120
- Chapter VIII. On the Cessation of Lawn. 121
Part Two. On the Principal Species of Lawsnn. 122–142
- Chapter I. On Natural and Divine Lawnn. 122–124
  - Article I. On Natural Lawnn. 122–123
  - Article II. On Divine Positive Lawn. 124
- Chapter II. On Ecclesiastical and Civil Lawnn. 125–132
  - Article I. On Ecclesiastical Lawnn. 125–130
  - Article II. On Civil Lawnn. 131–132
- Chapter III. On Penal and Invalidating Lawnn. 133–136
  - Article I. On Penal Lawnn. 133–134
  - Article II. On Invalidating Lawnn. 135–136
- Chapter IV. On Unwritten Law, or Customnn. 137–140
- Chapter V. On Favorable Law, or Privilegenn. 141–142