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CHAPTER NINE.On the forensic law.
The FORENSIC law is an ordinance God prescribed through Moses to Israel and repeated through his successors, containing precepts on the form of political government in civil society, for procuring animal and spiritual benefits by conserving the external worship and discipline of the moral and ceremonial law.
It chiefly treats magistrates, contracts, divisions of goods, judgments, and penalties (Exod.21–23; Deut. 17).It has two genera: common right as to substance, and singular right belonging exclusively to the Jewish people.
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CAPUT NONUM. De lege forensi. Lex FORENSIS est ordinatio, quam Deus per Mosen populo Israelitico praescripsit, & per eius successores repetivit & accommodavit, continens praecepta de forma gubernationis politicae in civili societate usurpandae, ad bonum vitae tum animalis tum etiam spiritualis procurandum per conservationem & exactionem cultus externi & disciplinae externae lege morali & cerimoniali praescriptae. Haec lex potissimum agit de magistratibus, contractibus, bonorum divisionibus, iudiciis, poenis & similibus (Exod. 21–23; Deut. 17). Referri potest ad duo genera: prius iuris communis quoad substantiam; posterius iuris singularis ad solam Judaeorum remp.