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An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen…An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen…
An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirror may be seen the wisdom & perfection of the government of Christs kingdom accommodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannical / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.An abstract of laws and government wherein as in a mirrour may be seen the wisdome & perfection of the government of Christs kingdome accomodable to any state or form of government in the world that is not antichristian or tyrannicall / collected and digested ... by John Cotton ... ; and now published after his death by William Aspinall.
London: printed by M.S. for Livewel Chapman, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 3. If one mans beast kill the beast of another's, the owner of the beast shall make restitution. Exod. 21. 35, 36. And if one mans ox hurt manother's, that he dye; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it, and the dead ox also shall they divide. Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.
Sect. 3. If one mans beast kill the beast of anothers, the owner of the beast shall make restitution. Exod. 21. 35, 36. And if one mans oxe hurt manothers, that he dye; then they shall sell the live oxe, and divide the money of it, and the dead oxe also shall they divide. Or if it be known that the oxe hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, he shall surely pay oxe for oxe, and the dead shall be his owne.
- mHeb. the ox of his neighbour.Heb. the oxe of his neighbour.
Sect. 4. If a mans ox or other beast, gore or bite, and kill a man or woman (whether child or riper age) the beast shall be killed, and no benefit of the dead beast reserved to the owner. But if the ox or beast were wont to push or bite in time past, and the owner hath been told of it, and hath not kept him in, then both the ox or beast shall be forfeited and killed, and the owner also put to death, or else fined to pay, what the Judges and persons damnified shall lay upon him. Exod. 21. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. If an ox gore a man or woman, that they dye, then the ox shall be