Chapter IV: On the Obligation of Law

St. Thomas, 1.2, q. 96; St. Alphonsus, I, 140; ed. G., I, p. 124; Suarez, l. 4, c. 17-20; Elbel, I, 292; Aertnys, I, 140; Genicot-Salsmans, I, n. 106.

175. After the treatment of those things which regard the institution, promulgation, and interpretation of law, one must treat of the very effect of law, or of the obligation of law. Three things here come to be investigated: 1. what kind of obligation law induces; 2. who are subjected to the obligation of law; 3. how this obligation is to be satisfied.