Part II, Chapter 26
Defines civil law as 'to every Subject, those Rules, which the Common-wealth hath Commanded him.' Foundational for legal positivism.
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Civil law is the command of the sovereign; punishment is an evil inflicted by public authority for transgression to dispose men to obedience.
Part II, Chapter 28
Defines punishment and its proper aims; nothing done by sovereign authority to a subject can be called injustice or injury.
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