297/699 Rights drawn from property are such as mortgages, servitudes, &c., being rights of what may be called partial or imperfect ownership. discusses the subject of contracts, with the general conditions required for a valid contract. Like most writers on morals, Hutcheson breaks in upon the strict rule of veracity by various necessary, but ill-defined, exceptions. Expressions of courtesy and etiquette are exempted, so also artifices in war, answers extorted by unjust violence, and some cases of peculiar necessity, as when a man tells a lie to save thousands of lives. |