Burlamaqui - Droit Naturel

Back in California.  I had some precious time today to spend a morning doing research, and I spent it working in the Robbins.  I worked on several texts - one I've been meaning to work on is Burlamaqui - one of the major texts of the modern Natural Law School.  


Burlamaqui, Principes du Droit Naturel.  Robbins Collection.

Part I follows much of Grotius and Pufendorf.  There are some interesting bits in Chapter 7 that will be useful for my current work - e.g.:

Burlamaqui.  Robbins Collection.

Particularly interesting is §6 and the comment on 'corrélatifs' - a term originating among the 'Logiciens.'  Another point I will need to follow up on.  Modern legal theorists boldly claim that correlativity is Hohfeld's achievement, but I never found this persuasive.  Now I can verify with some textual evidence to put the matter to rest - or maybe open a new line of inquiry.



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