Origo legum, or, A treatise of the origin of laws and their obliging power
Subtitle: 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
By: by George Dawson ...
Contributors: England and Wales.
Publisher: Printed for Richard Chiswell ...
Published: 1694
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Political science -- Early works to 1800; International law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Origo legum; Treatise of the origin of laws and their obliging power; Origin of laws; Of the origin of laws
Notes: Signatures: pi⁴ a-b⁴ c² A-X⁴, ²A-2D⁴ 2E².

"Books printed for Richard Chiswell": p. 219-[220].

LC copy has bookplate of John Harman mounted on verso of half title.

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) D459

ESTC R1427
Table of contents: title: Book I. Of law in general and its origin, of divers kinds of laws, and the law eternal; title: Book II. What laws man is to act by ...; title: Book III. Of the jus gentium civile, or the law of nations, as civilly related to one another; title: Book IV. Of the jus gentium militare, of the laws of arms and war; title: Book V. Of the jus gentium ecclesiasticum, or the laws and government of the Church Catholick; title: Book VI. Of the laws and government of the Church of England; title: Book VII. Why some laws are immutable and some not ...