Right and Law, though generally confounded, are exactly opposed, Right being liberty, and Law obligation.
In the natural state of war, every man, being governed by his own reason, has a right to everything, even to another's body.

But because thus no man's life is secure, he finds the First and fundamental law of nature, or general rule of reason, to be _to seek peace and follow it, if possible_: failing which, we may defend ourselves by all the means we can.

Here the law being 'to endeavour peace,' from this follows the Second law, that a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and self-defence he shall think it necessary, to _lay down this right to all things_; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.

This is the same as the Gospel precept, Do to others, &c.
Laying down one's right to anything is divesting one's self of the liberty of hindering another in the exercise of his own original right to the same.

The right is _renounced_, when a man cares not for whose benefit; _transferred_, when intended to benefit some certain person or persons.