Chapter V.

Now of the Particular Justice, and the Just involved in it, one species

is that which is concerned in the distributions of honour, or wealth,

or such other things as are to be shared among the members of the

social community (because in these one man as compared with another may

have either an equal or an unequal share), and the other is that which

is Corrective in the various transactions between man and man.

And of this latter there are two parts: because of transactions some

are voluntary and some involuntary; voluntary, such as follow; selling,

buying, use, bail, borrowing, deposit, hiring: and this class is called

voluntary because the origination of these transactions is voluntary.

The involuntary again are either such as effect secrecy; as theft,

adultery, poisoning, pimping, kidnapping of slaves, assassination,

false witness; or accompanied with open violence; as insult, bonds,

death, plundering, maiming, foul language, slanderous abuse.

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