Chapter — Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology

Chapter II. On the Roots of Restitution

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The roots of restitution are called the causes from which the obligation of restoring arises. They are taken from a threefold head, namely: 1st, from the acceptance of another's thing; 2nd, from unjust damaging; 3rd, from unjust cooperation: which indeed, as to the matter, could easily be reduced to one or the other of the preceding, but for the greater distinction of the things to be said will more opportunely be treated separately.

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