Ebook The Criminal Jurisprudence of the Ancient Hebrews

Of society, or against aggression on individual rights one might swallow the other alive. 1 From time to time, therefore, laws are adopted, embodying certain rules of civil conduct, of right or wrong, of what may or may not be done,2 and at the same time, as a matter of course, providing modes of punishment for the violation of those laws3 which constitute the cove nant of social life.