Excerpt from Lectures on Paley: Or, the Principles of Morality; Designed for the Use of Students in the University
The Civil Law is also imperfect, because there are many duties which it cannot define: Ex. In paying a debt twice, for a person by the Civil Law is not free from the debt, except he can show a receipt.
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