Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms

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1. PREFACE
2. Chapter I.: History of the Report.
3. Chapter II.: Value of the Report.
4. TABLE OF PARALLEL PASSAGES IN THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
5. NOTE
6. [§ 1. Of Works on Natural Jurisprudence.]
7. [§ 2. Of the Division of the Subject.]
8. [INTRODUCTION]
9. [§ 1. Of the Original Principles of Government.]
10. [§ 2. Of the Nature of Government and its Progress in the first Ages of Society.]
11. [§ 3. How Republican Governments were introduced.]
12. [§ 4. How Liberty was lost.]
13. [§ 5. Of Military Monarchy.]
14. [§ 6. How Military Monarchy was dissolved.]
15. [§ 7. Of the Allodial Government.]
16. [§ 8. Of the Feudal System.]
17. [§ 9. Of the English Parliament.]
18. [§ 10. How the Government of England became Absolute.]
19. [§ 11. How Liberty was restored.]
20. [§ 12. Of the English Courts of Justice.]
21. [§ 13. Of the little Republics in Europe.]
22. [§ 14. Of the Rights of Sovereigns.]
23. [§ 15. Of Citizenship.]
24. [§ 16. Of the Rights of Subjects.]
25. [§ 1. Husband and Wife.]
26. [§ 2. Parent and Child.]
27. [§ 3. Master and Servant.]
28. [§ 4. Guardian and Ward.]
29. [§ 5. Domestic Offences and their Punishments.]
30. [§ 1. First way of acquiring Property: Occupation.]
31. [§ 2. Second way of acquiring Property: Accession.]
32. [§ 3. Third way of acquiring Property: Prescription.]
33. [§ 4. Fourth way of acquiring Property: Succession.]
34. [§ 5. Fifth way of acquiring Property: Voluntary Transference.]
35. [§ 6. Of Servitudes.]
36. [§ 7. Of Pledges and Mortgages.]
37. [§ 8. Of Exclusive Privileges.]
38. [§ 9.] Of Contract.
39. [§ 10. Of Quasi-Contract.]
40. [§ 11. Of Delinquency.]
41. [DIVISION I. CLEANLINESS AND SECURITY.]
42. [§ 1. Of the Natural Wants of Mankind.]
43. [§ 2. That all the Arts are subservient to the Natural Wants of Mankind.]
44. [§ 3. That Opulence arises from the Division of Labour.]
45. [§ 4. How the Division of Labour multiplies the Product.]
46. [§ 5. What gives Occasion to the Division of Labour.]
47. [§ 6. That the Division of Labour must be proportioned to the Extent of Commerce.]
48. [§ 7. What Circumstances regulate the Price of Commodities.]
49. [§ 8. Of Money as the Measure of Value and Medium of Exchange.]
50. [§ 9. That National Opulence does not consist in Money.]
51. [§ 10. Of Prohibiting the Exportation of Coin.]
52. [§ 11. Of the Balance of Trade.]
53. [§ 12. Of the Opinion that no Expense at Home can be hurtful.]
54. [§ 13. Of the Scheme of Mr. Law.]
55. [§ 14. Of Interest.]
56. [§ 15. Of Exchange.]
57. [§ 16. Of the Causes of the slow Progress of Opulence.]
58. [Introduction.]
59. [§ 1. Of Taxes on Possessions.]
60. [§ 2. Of Taxes on Consumptions.]

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