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1694
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Dawson, George. Origo Legum: Or a Treatise of the Origin of Laws, and their Obliging Powers 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. London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, 1694.
In Origo Legum, George Dawson (1636?–1700) presents a respectable introduction to academic legal study. He begins with a general overview of the roots and types of law, and expands his scope to encompass such broad topics as the law of nations, the law of war, and ecclesiastical law. As a work of legal theory, Dawson's book stands as an exception in an otherwise mediocre group of late seventeenth century treatises. He dedicated the work to King William & Queen Mary.
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Item from the personal collection of Sid Lapidus, used with permission.