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Leviathan

CHAPTER XIV
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For he that renounceth, or passeth away his Right, giveth not to any other man a Right which he had not before; because there is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature: but onely standeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, without hindrance from him; not without hindrance from another.

So that the effect which redoundeth to one man, by another mans defect of Right, is but so much diminution of impediments to the use of his own Right originall.
Renouncing (or) Transferring Right What; Obligation Duty Justice Right is layd 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.

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, and it his DUTY, not to make voyd that voluntary act of his own: and that such hindrance is INJUSTICE, and INJURY, as being Sine Jure; the Right being before renounced, or transferred.


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