Excerpt from A Methodical System of Universal Law, or the Laws of Nature and Nations Deduced From Certain Principles, and Applied to Proper Cases, Vol. 2: Written in Latin by the Celebrated Jo. Got. Heineccius, Counsellor of State to the King of Prussia, and Professor of Philosophy at Hall; Translated, and Illustrated With Notes and Supplements And in confequence of thefe limitations, both Rates give men certain rights, and oblige them to certain duties: Thus certain duties belong to thofe who live in a fiate of nature, and other duties belong to husbands and wives, o thors to parents and children, others to mafters and fer vants, and others to citizens. And therefore our definitis on of a {late comes to the fame with that of Pufendorfi', of the duties ofa man and a citizen, 2. 1. I. Where he def fines that fiate to be in general, a condition in which men, are underf'tood to be placed in order to: a certain courfe of ae'tion, and which is accompanied with certain rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.