Law of nature and natural justice
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The Law of Intellectual Property (English)
The Common Law, or the law of nature, is often called “the perfection of reason;
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The natural standard of right and wrong distinguished from positive civil enactments.
For in the eye of natural justice he is not to blame.
For perfect freedom from fraud or compulsion, in all our dealings, is a right which we derive from natural law and liberty.
By loss is meant a diminution of what any one possesses, whether it be a right derived to him purely from the law of nature, or from the addition of human authority, that is from the law of property, contract, or civil law, God has given life to man, not to destroy, but to preserve it;
The Law of Intellectual Property
The universal principle of justice, treated by the author as identical to the Common Law and as the standard for determining property rights.
The Common Law, or the law of nature, is often called “the perfection of reason;
The Common Law of England, then, with a few exceptions, which are wholly immaterial to the question of intellectual property, consists of, and is identical with, the simple principles of natural justice.
It will be seen from what has been stated, that, with the exceptions before alluded to, the Common Law, or, what is the same thing, the law of nature, is a science, as much so as any of the other sciences.