第 3 节
作者:寻找山吹      更新:2024-04-07 21:07      字数:9322
  〃equity〃 and 〃the right of necessity;〃 the equivocations involved
  arise from an interchange of the objective and subjective grounds that
  enter into the application of the principles of right; when viewed
  respectively by reason or by a judicial tribunal。 What one may have
  good grounds for recognising as right; in itself; may not find
  confirmation in a court of justice; and what he must consider to be
  wrong; in itself; may obtain recognition in such a court。 And the
  reason of this is that the conception of right is not taken in the two
  cases in one and the same sense。
  DIVISION
  DIVISION OF THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT。
  A。 General Division of the Duties of Right。
  (Juridical Duties)。
  In this division we may very conveniently follow Ulpian; if his
  three formulae are taken in a general sense; which may not have been
  quite clearly in his mind; but which they are capable of being
  developed into or of receiving。 They are the following:
  1。 Honeste vive。 〃Live rightly。〃 juridical rectitude; or honour
  (honestas juridica); consists in maintaining one's own worth as a
  man in relation to others。 This duty may be rendered by the
  proposition: 〃Do not make thyself a mere means for the use of
  others; but be to them likewise an end。〃 This duty will be explained
  in the next formula as an obligation arising out of the right of
  humanity in our own person (lex justi)。
  2。 Neminem laede。 〃Do wrong to no one。〃 This formula may be rendered
  so as to mean: 〃Do no wrong to any one; even if thou shouldst be under
  the necessity; in observing this duty; to cease from all connection
  with others and to avoid all society〃 (lex juridica)。
  3。 Suum cuique tribue。 〃Assign to every one what is his own。〃 This
  may be rendered; 〃Enter; if wrong cannot be avoided; into a society
  with others in which every one may have secured to him what is his
  own。〃 If this formula were to be simply translated; 〃Give every one
  his own;〃 it would express an absurdity; for we cannot give any one
  what he already has。 If it is to have a definite meaning; it must
  therefore run thus: 〃Enter into a state in which every one can have
  what is his own secured against the action of every other〃 (lex
  justitiae)。
  These three classical formulae; at the same time; represent
  principles which suggest a division of the system of juridical
  duties into internal duties; external duties; and those connecting
  duties which contain the latter as deduced from the principle of the
  former by subsumption。
  B。 Universal Division of Rights。
  I。 Natural Right and Positive Right。 The system of rights; viewed as
  a scientific system of doctrines; is divided into natural right and
  positive right。 Natural right rests upon pure rational principles a
  priori; positive or statutory right is what proceeds from the will
  of a legislator。
  II。 Innate Right and Acquired Right。 The system of rights may
  again be regarded in reference to the implied powers of dealing
  morally with others as bound by obligations; that is; as furnishing
  a legal title of action in relation to them。 Thus viewed; the system
  is divided into innate right and acquired right。 Innate right is
  that right which belongs to every one by nature; independent of all
  juridical acts of experience。 Acquired right is that right which is
  founded upon such juridical acts。
  Innate right may also be called the 〃internal mine and thine〃
  (meum vel tuum internum) for external right must always be acquired。
  There is only one Innate Right; the Birthright of Freedom。
  Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another; and in so
  far as it can coexist with the freedom of all according to a universal
  law; it is the one sole original; inborn right belonging to every
  man in virtue of his humanity。 There is; indeed; an innate equality
  belonging to every man which consists in his right to be independent
  of being bound by others to anything more than that to which he may
  also reciprocally bind them。 It is; consequently; the inborn quality
  of every man in virtue of which he ought to be his own master by right
  (sui juris)。 There is; also; the natural quality of justness
  attributable to a man as naturally of unimpeachable right (justi);
  because be has done no wrong to any one prior to his own juridical
  actions。 And; further; there is also the innate right of common action
  on the part of every man; so that he may do towards others what does
  not infringe their rights or take away anything that is theirs
  unless they are willing to appropriate it; such merely to
  communicate thought; to narrate anything; or to promise something
  whether truly and honestly; or untruly and dishonestly (veriloquim aut
  falsiloquim); for it rests entirely upon these others whether they
  will believe or trust in it or not。*  But all these rights or titles
  are already included in the principle of innate freedom; and are not
  really distinguished from it; even as dividing members under a
  higher species of right。
  *It is customary to designate every untruth that is spoken
  intentionally as such; although it may be in a frivolous manner a lie;
  or falsehood (mendacium); because it may do harm; at least in so far
  as any one who repeats it in good faith may be made a laughing…stock
  of to others on account of his easy credulity。 But in the juridical
  sense; only that untruth is called a lie which immediately infringes
  the right of another; such as a false allegation of a contract
  having been concluded; when the allegation is put forward in order
  to deprive some one of what is his (falsiloquim dolosum)。 This
  distinction of conceptions so closely allied is not without
  foundation; because on the occasion of a simple statement of one's
  thoughts; it is always free for another to take them as he may; and
  yet the resulting repute; that such a one is a man whose word cannot
  be trusted; comes so close to the opprobrium of directly calling him a
  liar; that the boundary…line separating what; in such a case;
  belongs to jurisprudence; and what is special to ethics; can hardly be
  otherwise drawn。
  The reason why such a division into separate rights has been
  introduced into the system of natural right; viewed as including all
  that is innate; was not without a purpose。 Its object was to enable
  proof to be more readily put forward in case of any controversy
  arising about an acquired right; and questions emerging either with
  reference to a fact that might be in doubt; or; if that were
  established; in reference to a right under dispute。 For the party
  repudiating an obligation; and on whom the burden of proof (onus
  probandi) might be incumbent; could thus methodically refer to his
  innate right of freedom as specified under various relations in
  detail; and could therefore found upon them equally as different
  titles of right。
  In the relation of innate right; and consequently of the internal
  mine and thine; there is therefore not rights; but only one right。
  And; accordingly; this highest division of rights into innate and
  acquired; which evidently consists of two members extremely unequal in
  their contents is properly placed in the introduction; and the
  subdivisions of the science of right may be referred in detail to
  the external mine and thine。
  C。 Methodical Division of the Science of Right。
  The highest division of the system of natural right should not be…
  as it is frequently put… into 〃natural right〃 and 〃social right;〃
  but into natural right and civil right。 The first constitutes
  private right; the second; public right。 For it is not the 〃social
  state〃 but the 〃civil state〃 that is opposed to the 〃state of nature〃;
  for in the 〃state of nature〃 there may well be society of some kind;
  but there is no 〃civil〃 society; as an institution securing the mine
  and thine by public laws。 It is thus that right; viewed under
  reference to the state of nature; is specially called private right。
  The whole of the principles of right will therefore fall to be
  expounded under the two subdivisions of private right and public
  right。
  CH1
  FIRST PART。 PRIVATE RIGHT。
  The System of those Laws Which Require No External Promulgation。
  CHAPTER I。 Of the Mode of Having Anything External as One's Own。
  1。 The Meaning of 〃Mine〃 in Right
  (Meum Juris)。
  Anything is 〃Mine〃 by right; or is rightfully mine; when I am so
  connected with it; that if any other person should make use of it
  without my consent; he would do me a lesion or injury。 The
  subjective condition of the use of anything is possession of it。
  An external thing; however as such could only be mine; if I may
  assume it to be possible that I can be wronged by the use which
  another might make of it when it is not actually in my possession。
  Hence it would be a contradiction to have anything external as one's
  own; we