DE OFFICIO HOMINIS ET CIVIS
JUXTA LEGEM NATURALEM LIBRI DUO

BY

SAMUEL VON PUFENDORF

VOLUME TWO
THE TRANSLATION

By FRANK GARDNER MOORE
Professor of Latin in Columbia University

Reprinted 1964

OCEANA PUBLICATIONS INC.
WILDY & SONS LTD.
NEW YORK, U. S. A. LONDON.

CONTENTS

		PAGE
	Translation by Herbert F. Wright of the Introduction by Walther Schücking	9a-27a
	Translation of the Dedication and Preface to De Officio Hominis et Civis ... by Herbert F. Wright	i-xii
	Translation of the 1682 Edition of De Officio Hominis et Civis ... by Frank Gardner Moore	1-146
	Index by Herbert F. Wright	147

[The Title-Page of the Edition of 1682]

THE TWO BOOKS
ON THE DUTY OF MAN AND CITIZEN
ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL LAW

BY SAMUEL VON PUFENDORF

CAMBRIDGE

FROM THE HOUSE OF JOHN HAYES
Printer to the Celebrated University
1682
At the Charges of John Creed, Bookseller, Cambridge.

TABLE OF CHAPTERS

	CHAPTER		PAGE[1]
		BOOK I
	1.	On human action	1 [3]
	2.	On the norm of human actions, or law in general	12 [12]
	3.	On natural law	18 [17]
	4.	On the duty of man toward God, or natural religion	24 [22]
	5.	On the duty of man toward himself	31 [28]
	6.	On mutual duties, and first, that of not injuring others	42 [37]
	7.	On recognition of the natural equality of men	47 [42]
	8.	On the common duties of humanity	50 [45]
	9.	On the duty of contracting parties in general	53 [48]
	10.	On the duty of the users of language	62 [56]
	11.	On the duty of those who take oath	66 [59]
	12.	On duty as regards the acquisition of ownership	69 [62]
	13.	On the duties which result from ownership per se	76 [68]
	14.	On value	78 [70]
	15.	On contracts which presuppose the prices of things, and the duties thence derived	82 [74]
	16.	The methods of dissolving obligations arising from agreements	91 [81]
	17.	On interpretation	93 [83]
		BOOK II
	1.	On the natural state of men	98 [89]
	2.	On conjugal duties	104 [94]
	3.	On the duties of parents and children	106 [97]
	4.	On the duties of masters and servants	112 [101]
	5.	On the impelling cause for the establishment of a State	115 [103]
	6.	On the internal structure of States	118 [106]
	7.	On the functions of the supreme authority	123 [110]
	8.	On the forms of government	126 [113]
	9.	The characteristics of civil authority	130 [116]
	10.	On the methods of acquiring authority, especially monarchical	132 [118]
	11.	On the duty of rulers	135 [121]
	12.	On civil laws in particular	140 [125]
	13.	On the power of life and death	143 [128]
	14.	On reputation	148 [133]
	15.	On the power of the supreme authority over property in the State	152 [136]
	16.	On war and peace	154 [138]
	17.	On alliances	159 [142]
	18.	On the duties of citizens	161 [144]

1. [The numbers in brackets refer to pages of this translation.]