QUESTION 97

OF CHANGE IN LAWS

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider change in laws: under which head there are four

points of inquiry:

(1) Whether human law is changeable?

(2) Whether it should be always changed, whenever anything better

occurs?

(3) Whether it is abolished by custom, and whether custom obtains the

force of law?

(4) Whether the application of human law should be changed by

dispensation of those in authority?

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