Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...convincitur, qui ultra necessaria sibi retinere probatur." 2 Gratian, 'Decretum, ' D. xli. 3: "Non cogantur divites pauperum cibis vesci, utantur consuetudine infirmitatis suae; sed dolebant se aliter non posse; si consuetudinem mutant egretant. Utantur superfiuis, dent inopibus necessaria, utantur preciosis, dent pauperibus vilia. " Of. St Augustine, Sermo lxi. 3 Rufinus, ' Summa Decret., ' D. xlii. " 'Aliena rapere convincitur, qui ultra necessaria sibi retinere probatur.' Hoc videtur contrarium ei, quod supra dictum est de divitibus, ut utantur superfluis: supra prox. dist. c. non cogantur. Sed aliud est retinendo superflua necessariis nec de superfluis e1imosinam erogare, quod hic penitus reprobatur. Vel ad terrorem vel in eo tantum casu dictum intelligitur, cum aliquem videris fame periclitari; unde dicitur: 'Pasce fame morientem.' Quisquis enim fame morientem servare poteris, si non paveris, occidisti." 4 'Decretals, ' v. 40. 12: "Jus dictum est a jure possidendo. Hoc enim jure possidetur, quod juste, hoc juste, quod bene; quod autem male possidetur, alienum est. Male autem possidet, qui vel suis male utitur, vel aliena praesumit." Of. St Aug., Ep. cliii. 6, and St Isidore of Seville, 'Etym., ' v. 25, and vol. i. pp. 141, 142. the same time, it is perhaps worth while to notice that Regino and Burchard cite a canon which suggests that the Church recognised that the moral offence of the man who was in want and stole another man's property was small, the penance imposed in such cases is very slight.3 Nam si 1 St Thomas Aquinas, ' Summa Theologica, ' 2. 2. q. 66. 7. 0. Cf. Notes in 'Econ. Review, '...