O R I G O. L E G U M: OR A T R E A T I S EOF THE ORIGIN OF LAWS, A N D Their Obliging Power: AS ALSO OF THEIR GREAT VARIETYA N DWhy Some Laws are Immutable, and Some not;but may Suffer Change, or Ceafe to be, or beSufpended or Abrogated.__________________________In Seven Books. __________________________By GEORGE DAWSON, M. A.
L O N D O N,Printed for Richard Chifwell, at the Rofe and Crownin St. Paul's Church-Yard. MDCXCIV.[1694]
~ THE FIRST EDITION ~
Contemporary full calf, rebacked and repaired. Stain to lower corner gradually diminishing, a few very small worm holes to earlier leaves and a efw later leaves, affecting margins only, lower outer margins of first few leaves neatly repaired.
A folio volume, it measures approximately 33cm (13") x 21cm (8¼") x 4cm (1½"). Pagination pp. [28], 168; 219, [1], collated and complete.
GEORGE DAWSON (1637-1700), English jurist, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1658-9, M.A. in 1662, and was presented by his college to the vicarage of Sunninghill, Berkshire, where he died in 1700, aged 63.
His only known publisheed work is the ambitious Origo Legum; or a Treatise of the Origin of Laws, and their obliging power; as also of their great variety; and why some laws are immutable, and some not; but may suffer change, or cease to be, or be suspended, or abrogated. In seven books,. the work was dedicated to King William and Queen Mary, and first published in folio in 1694.
It is "one of the most interesting, but now completely forgotten, treatises on natural law to be printed in late-seventeenth-century England. Despite its many qualities, the treatise was published, albeit very handsomely by Richard Chiswell, in a very limited edition... and it simply failed to reach the relevant audience."
CONTENTS IN BRIEF,
BOOK I. Of Law in general, and its origin: of the divers kinds of Laws, and the law Eternal.
BOOK II. What Laws man is to act by
BOOK III. Of the Jus Gentium Civile, or the Law of Nations, as civilly related to one another.
BOOK IV. Of the Jus Gentium Militare, or the laws of Arms and War.
BOOK V. Of the Jus Gentium Ecclefiafticum, or the Laws and Government of the Church Catholick.
BOOK VI. Of the Laws and Government of the Church of England.
BOOK VII. Why fome Laws are immutable and fome not, but may be changed, or ceafe, be fufpended or abrogated.
A rare FIRST EDITION ~ a handsome folio printed "in a very limited edition" and thus seldom seen on the market.
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