Right is laid aside, either by simply renouncing it; or by transferring it to another. By _simply_ RENOUNCING; when he cares not to whom the benefit thereof redoundeth. [Sidenote: Transferring right what. Obligation.] By TRANSFERRING; when he intendeth the benefit thereof to some certain person, or persons. And when a man hath in either manner abandoned, or granted away his right; then is he said to be OBLIGED, or BOUND, not to hinder those, to whom such right is granted, or abandoned, from the benefit of it: and that he _ought_, [Sidenote: Duty.] and it is his DUTY, not to make void that voluntary act of his own: [Sidenote: Injustice.] and that such hindrance is INJUSTICE, and INJURY, as being _sine jure_; the right being before renounced, or transferred. So that _injury_, or _injustice_, in the controversies of the world, is somewhat like to that, which in the disputations of scholars is called _absurdity_. For as it is there called an absurdity, to contradict what one maintained in the beginning: so in the world, it is called injustice, and injury, voluntarily to undo that, which from the beginning he had voluntarily done. The way by which a man either simply renounceth, or transferreth his right, is a declaration, or signification, by some voluntary and sufficient sign, or signs, that he doth so renounce, or transfer; or hath so renounced, or transferred the same, to him that accepteth it. And these signs are either words only, or actions only; or, as it happeneth most often, both words, and actions. And the same are the BONDS, by which men are bound, and obliged: bonds, that have their strength, not from their own nature, for nothing is more easily broken than a man’s word, but from fear of some evil consequence upon the rupture. [Sidenote: Not all rights are alienable.]