The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. In Two Volumes. ...

Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu

A. Donaldson and J. Reid. For Ebenezer Wilson in Dumfries, 1762

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Of the commerce of the ancients 2 0	20

Of the commerce of the Greeks and that of Egypt after the conqueft of Alexander	26

of Carthage and Mar feilles	35

Of the genius of the Romans as to maritime affairs	40

Of the genius of the Romans as to commerce ibid Chap XI Of the commerce of the Romans with the Bar barians	41

Of the commerce of the Romans with Ara bia and the Indies	42

Of commerce after the deftruction of the western empire	44

A particular regulation	45

Capital difference between the Salic laws	193

How the Roman law came to be loft	199

Difference between the Salic law or that	206

Particular notions of our anceflors ibid 1	212

Origin of the point of honour	218

Of the judiciary combat between one of the parties and one of the wituees	227

Of the judicial combat between one of the judges and one of the lords peers Appeal of falfe judgment	228

Of the appeal of default of justice	233

The difcovery of two new worlds and in what manner Europe is affected by itɔ	48

Of the riches Spain drew from America	52

A problem	56

The reason of the ufe of money 5 7	58

Of ideal money	60

Of the quantity of gold and filver	61

How the price of things is fixed in the va riation of the fign of riches	62

The fame fubject continued	63

Of the relative fcarcity of gold and filver	64

Of exchange	65

On the proceedings of the Romans with re Spect to money	73

The circumstances in which the Romans changed the value of their fpecie	75

The practice of fome countries in Italy	78

Of laws in the relation they bear to	87

Of young women ibid	93

Of the ſtate and number of people before the Romans	99

Of the depopulation of the univerſe ibid Chap XX That the Romans were under a neceffity of making laws to encourage the propagation of the fpe ci...	100

Chap XXII Of the expofing of children III	111

Of the fate of the univerſe after the de fruction of the Romans	112

The fame fubject continued	113

Confequences	114

Of hoſpitals	115

A paradox of Mr Bayles	119

That a moderate government is moſt a greeable to the Chriftian religion and a deſpotic go vernment to the Mahometan	120

Confequences from the character of the Chri ftian religion and that of the Mahometan	121

That the Catholic religion is moſt agreeable to a monarchy and the Proteftant to a republic	122

Another of Mr Bayles paradoxes	123

Of the laws of perfection in religion ibid Chap VIII Of the connection between the moral laws and thofe of religion	124

Of the Effenes ibid Chap X Of the fect of Stoics ibid Chap X Of contemplation	125

Of penance	126

Chap	127

The fame fubject continued	133

Of templess	140

Of the pontificate	146

Epoch of the reign of St Lewis	238

Obfervations on appeals	241

The fame fubject continued ibid Chap XXXII The fame fubject continued	242

The fame fubject continued	243

In what manner the proceedings at law became fecret	244

Of the cofts	245

Of the public profecutor	246

In what manner the inftitutions of St Lewis fell into oblivion	249

The fame fubject continued	250

The fame fubject continued	253

In what manner the judiciary forms were borrowed from the decretals	255

The revival of the Roman law and the refult thereof Change in the tribunals	257

The fame fame fubject continued	259

Of the proof by witneffes	260

Of the customs of France	261

Of the manner of compofing laws Chap I Of the fpirit of the legislator	264

The fame fubject continued ibid Chap III That the laws which feem to deviate from the views of the legislator are frequently agreeable to them	265

The fame fubject continued ibid Chap VI That laws which appear the fame have not always the fame effect	266

Chap	267

That the Greek and Roman laws punished fuicide but not through the fame motive	268

That the laws which feem contrary proceed Sometimes from the fame fpirit	269

That laws which appear the fame are fometimes really different	270

That we muſt not ſeparate the laws from the end for which they mere made of the Roman laws on theft	271

That we muſt not ſeparate the laws from the circumftances in which they were made	273

Things to be obferved in the compofing of laws	274

A bad method of giving laws	279

Of the ideas of uniformity ibid Chap XIX Of legislators	280

Theory of the feudal laws among the Franks in the relation they bear to the eſtabliſhment of the mo narchy Chap I Of feudal laws	281

Of the fource of feudal laws ibid Chap III The origin of vaffalage	282

The fame fubject continued	283

Of the conquefts of the Franks	284

Of the Goths Burgundians and Franks 285 ibid Chap VII Different ways of dividing lands Chap VIII The fame fubject continued	286

A juft application of the law of the Burgun gundians and of that of the Vifigoths in relation to the divifion of lands	287

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Title	The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. In Two Volumes. ... Volume 2 of The Spirit of Laws: Translated from the French of M. de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. In Two Volumes, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Author	Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu
Publisher	A. Donaldson and J. Reid. For Ebenezer Wilson in Dumfries, 1762
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	26 Jun 2017

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