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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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8 - Fig. Law
Law is the performance of acts of justice and those who would follow it shall not offend God and their
neighbor. To avoid the prolixity of various volumes compiled in
large numbers to cover countless cases since antiquity, the Author of this Art, desiring to serve the
common good has artificially reduced distinct universal
principles of the science of Law to this Art, so that anyone skilled in it can discover any desired
particular issue related to Law through a brief investigation. And to
give a clearer view of these principles, the necessary propositions of Law have been given in this chapter.
These propositions are divided into two parts, in the first part each of the sixteen principles has
three propositions, totaling forty-eight propositions. In the second
part, propositions made from the principles of Law and the principles of T. follow three by three around
the angles of T. in order to explain the rule and doctrine for
reducing the principles of Law to the principles of T. Each angle of T. in this second part contains
three propositions, totaling forty-five. Thus, with forty-eight
propositions in the first part and forty-five in the second, there are altogether ninety-three propositions.
Let us begin with the first part.
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