II. What the Law Is 5
III. What the Law Does 5
IV. What the Law Should Be 5
V. Why the Law is Made 6
VI. How the Law Should Triumph over Enemies 6
BOOK II.
CONCERNING THE CONDUCT OF CAUSES.
TITLE I.--_Concerning Judges, and Matters to be
Decided in Court._
I. When Amended Laws Should come in Force 11
II. The Royal Power, as well as the Entire Body of the
People should be Subject to the Majesty of the Law 12
III. It is Permitted to No One to be Ignorant of the Law 13
IV. The Business of the King shall First be Considered,
then that of the People 13
V. How the Avarice of the King should be Restrained in
the Beginning, and How Documents Issued in the
Name of the King should be Drawn Up 14
VI. Concerning Those who Abandon the King, or the
People, or their Country, or who Conduct themselves
with Arrogance 17
VII. Of Incriminating the King, or Speaking Ill of Him 19
VIII. Of Annulling the Laws of Foreign Nations 20
IX. No One shall presume to have in his Possession another
Book of Laws except this which has just been
Published 20
X. Concerning Feast Days and Festivals, during which No
Legal Business shall be Transacted 21
XI. No Cause shall be Heard by the Judges which is not
Sanctioned by the Law 22
XII. When Causes have once been Determined, at no Time
shall They be Revived, but They shall be Disposed
of according to the Arrangement of this Book; the
Addition of Other Laws being One of the Prerogatives
of the King 23
XIII. It Shall be Lawful for No One to Hear and Determine
Causes except Those Whom either the King, the
Parties by Voluntary Consent, or the Judge, shall
have Invested with Judicial Powers 23
XIV. What Causes shall be Heard, and to what Persons
Causes shall be Assigned for a Decision 24
XV. Judges Shall Decide Criminal as well as Civil Causes 24
XVI. Concerning the Punishment of Those who Presume to
Act as Judges, Who have not been Invested with
Judicial Power 24
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