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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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¶Of Prescription.
1Hereby we gather that the right of prescription is no new thing, but a thing grafted of God himself in the hearts of men.
1HEreby we gather that the right of prescription is no newe thing, but a thing grafted of God hymselfe in the hartes of men.
- 1Why the law of prescription was brought inWhy the lawe of prescription was brought in
But why it was found out, I will in few words declare. It may be, that a man may possess an other mans thing unwittingly. As for example: There is an heir which succeedeth him that is dead, and among his goods he findeth somethings that were usurped by the former, while he lived, or received for a pledge, which he being ignorant of, possesseth all those things with a good mind. And so being ignorant and unwitting, possesseth an other mans thing as his own. What then? shall the heir never seek for the just possession thereof? If the true owner do never require his thing, ought the ignorant to defraud the heir for ever, that he should never possess again that thing as his own? For if the owner never demand his own thing again, that is to be ascribed unto his own sloth and sluggish negligence. Wherefore in detestation of such sluggishness, and in commendation of an upright faith, and lastly for public peace sake, the law of prescription was found out. Jephthah now useth this law against the Ammonites.