Domestic Relations, continued. Parent and Child; Guardian and Ward; Minors; Masters, Apprentices, and Servants
Rights of Property. How Title to Property is acquired; Wills and Testaments; Title to Property by Descent
Incorporeal Hereditaments, Right of Way; Aquatic Rights, &c.
Leases. Estates for Life; Estates for Years; Estates at Will; Estates by Sufferance; Rent, &c.
Fraudulent Sales; Assignments; Gifts, &c.
Principal and Agent, or Factor; Broker; Lien, &c.
Origin and Progress of the Law of Nations; the Natural, Customary, and Conventional Laws of Nations
The Jurisdiction of Nations; their mutual Rights and Obligations; the Rights of Embassadors, Ministers, &c.
Offensive and Defensive War; just Causes of War; Reprisals; Alliances in War
Declaration of War; its Effect upon the Person and Property of the Enemy's Subjects; Stratagems in War; Privateering
Rights and Duties of Neutral Nations; Contraband Goods; Blockade; Right of Search; Safe Conducts and Passports; Truces; Treaties of Peace
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Mankind fitted for Society, and for Civil Government and Laws.
§1. Mankind are social beings. They are by nature fitted for society. By this we mean that they are naturally disposed to associate with each other. Indeed, such is their nature, that they could not be happy without such association. Hence we conclude that the Creator has designed men for society. It can not, therefore, be true, as some say, that the savage state is the natural state of man.
§2. Man is so formed that he is dependent upon his fellow men. He has not the natural strength of other animals. He needs the assistance of creatures like himself to protect and preserve his own being. We can hardly imagine how a person could procure the necessaries of life without such assistance. But men have the gifts of reason and speech. By conversation they are enabled to improve their reason and increase their knowledge, and to find methods of supplying their wants, and of improving their social condition.